Fanelli: 2025 will be the first year AI sets job skill floors
Alessio Fanelli · 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents · Jan 1, 2025 · at 1:41:17
Alessio Fanelli (partner at Decibel and co-host of Latent Space) discusses the economic impact of coding and customer support agents.
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“And I think the skill floor more and more, I think, 20, 25 will be the first year where the AI sets the skill floor of a role.”
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