Yes he made the point succinctly and clearly. But he's not the first person to offer that insight. Employers (or customers, for freelancers) pay you to add valu

Yes he made the point succinctly and clearly. But he's not the first person to offer that insight. Employers (or customers, for freelancers) pay you to add value, which can take many forms. They do not pay you to hone your expertise with programming tools. Mastery of programming languages, tools, and expertise comprise a necessary but not sufficient set of skills needed to add business value. You also have to understand the business domain sufficiently well to translate requirements into software, and usually to help define the requirements. You have to work as a member of a team and a larger organization. For years I've written "No company ever needed 5,000 more lines of Javascript code." You don't get paid for writing code, or writing the highest-quality code. You get paid to solve business problems and add value. People who can do that will always get jobs, even if someday the descendants of ChatGPT make up part of their toolkit.