Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth
Apr 23, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
Job postings with AI skills now pay $18,000 more per year (Lightcast, 2025). By 2030, 39% of today's skills will be outdated. These are the ones that won't. So I asked the people building these AI…
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Everyone's worried about whether AI will replace them, but that's not the real question.
The real question is, how do you become the person AI cannot replace? Because here's what we're seeing right now.
People who learn how to work with AI are growing their careers faster than anyone could imagine.
LinkedIn shows that professionals are adding new skills to their profiles 140% faster since late 2022.
And Lightcast confirms postings with AI skills pay 28% more, about $18,000 extra per year.
And $18,000 per year is you making sure you know all the apps in your industry, making sure you know how to use them, and utilizing them, and saving your time as well.
So today, I want to focus on the skills that actually keep you adaptable and in demand, not just this year, but for the next decade.
And if you're new to my channel, I run a podcast called Silicon Valley Girl, where I interview founders, CEOs, and AI experts, and in every interview I ask them one question: Which skills will be relevant in the future? Because I'm worried about myself, and I'm really worried about my kids, who are six and four, because they are growing up in a world I've no idea about.
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Everyone's worried about whether AI will replace them, but that's not the real question.
The real question is, how do you become the person AI cannot replace? Because here's what we're seeing right now.
People who learn how to work with AI are growing their careers faster than anyone could imagine.
LinkedIn shows that professionals are adding new skills to their profiles 140% faster since late 2022.
And Lightcast confirms postings with AI skills pay 28% more, about $18,000 extra per year.
And $18,000 per year is you making sure you know all the apps in your industry, making sure you know how to use them, and utilizing them, and saving your time as well.
So today, I want to focus on the skills that actually keep you adaptable and in demand, not just this year, but for the next decade.
And if you're new to my channel, I run a podcast called Silicon Valley Girl, where I interview founders, CEOs, and AI experts, and in every interview I ask them one question: Which skills will be relevant in the future? Because I'm worried about myself, and I'm really worried about my kids, who are six and four, because they are growing up in a world I've no idea about.