r/Futurology

What happens when tech moves faster than humans can actually learn?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. AI is getting better so fast that sometimes I wonder if our ability to actually learn and adapt can keep up with it. Take coding for example. Before AI, if you wanted to build something, you usually had to struggle through a lot of stuff yourself. You wrote code, broke things, read logs, searched Stack Overflow, spent hours debugging some stupid bug, and slowly figured out how the whole system worked. It was slow and painful, but I think that process