Will There Always Be Expert AI Users?

Something on my mind a lot recently is this scene from the first episode of Westworld: I remember watching this when it came out thinking that it was so unrealistic as to be comedic. I very distinctly remember thinking “Any complicated AI being would no be able to be debugged just by talking to it. That’s so dumb, you would obviously need actual real debugging tools. You’d be writing code, etc. Stupid!” 10 years on, now I’m not so sure. Right now, there are two(-ish) groups of people that use AI. There are the default chat-interface people we’ll call Group A that use whatever OpenAI or Anthropic serves them in a web UI, and then there are the agent/harness people using things like Claude Code or Codex or Pi or whatever. Let’s call them Group B. There is a tacit assumption right now that, like most all technology before, expertise and mastery (or a desire for it) drives a portion of Group A to Group B. You could call group B “Expert Users”. However, model advances seem to upset this…