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AI Moved First

You didn’t fall behind slowly.

You fell behind instantly.

Somewhere in the last year, the rules changed. Skills no longer age gradually. Relevance no longer fades over time.

It updates live.

Someone publishes faster. A model performs better. A new capability appears. The baseline resets. And it happens while you’re still working, still learning, still paying attention.

This is new.

For most of history, you had time to catch up. Now the target moves in real time.

And that creates a fear we’ve never had to live with before.

Not replacement.

Immediate irrelevance.