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.