money

Whether Your Paycheck Is Safe Has Little to Do With Your Skills

Money is an IOU. Whether your salary is stable depends on the books of whoever pays you, and on where their money comes from.

On your boss's ledger, you get more expensive every year. AI gets cheaper.

After scrolling through my own raise history for the last few years, I finally sat down and looked at the cost sheet every boss stares at: headcount is one row, compute is another, and they point in opposite directions. One drops tenfold a year, the other creeps up a point. Why grinding your skills harder doesn't get you off that sheet, and what you can actually change.