The skills simply change over time. It's great that you could muck about and maybe fix something back in the day, but does that same skill apply to modern architecture? No. The true skill you learned what your ability to be curious, to constantly learn and improve, and use those skills across a wide variety of problems, not just simple tech issues. Those are the skills we should be teaching the next and future generation, rather than what the classic education paradigm has been, which is memorization and how to show up on time, to make good factory workers, which are existing less and less in the modern world. Does AI help or harm that? It's just another tool that can be used in good or bad ways, just like the calculator.

Oh I might be as well. I already have a partially titanium and bone leg. IM rod. And to lessen the pain; I'm thinking of getting something that's like a Sandevistan. As in strands implanted in my spine with an electronic controller ... that well I plan to hack. Who knows how that will work out but I'm also pretty dumb.

Now, you have to know someone to be referenced if you want to get paid. If you want play games for free, you can always apply for closed or open betas; at lot of times stress tests are needed as well as hardware tests. Then again "early access" has become a bit of a plague to that.

You also get the perk of not reporting glitches. I don't know if you've played World of Warcraft, there was a fun reason they implemented a global cooldown for skills. One reason was you could write a macro to swap weapons and do a backstab or ambush with the slowest blunt weapon possible. Oh the joys of 4k to 8k crits. It was quite a bit of a "solo leveling" dungeon experience. I mean if you think about it, getting backstabbed rearended with a big blunt mace probably would be a more serious crit than a tiny dagger.