Why AI is the new electrical trade
When electricity arrived, most people treated it like magic or a novelty. A few people treated it like infrastructure — and those people built the modern world.
I started as an Army electrician. I know what it means to run wire, design a circuit, and integrate power into a structure so it just works. AI feels exactly the same to me, one layer up.
Every wave rewards the people who wire it
Electricity didn't just light rooms. It created entire professions that didn't exist before: electricians, electrical engineers, appliance makers, whole industries built on top of a new kind of power.
The people who learned to work with it — not just consume it — captured the upside. The same thing is happening with AI right now, and most people are still treating it like a novelty.
The new trades are digital
If you map the old electrical world onto AI, it gets obvious fast:
- Prompting is wiring — getting power to flow where you want it
- Agents are control systems — things that act on their own within limits
- Workflows are the grid — the infrastructure that ties it all together
- Evals are inspection — making sure the system is safe and correct
These are real skills. They're learnable. And right now, very few people have them, which is exactly why they're valuable.
You don't need a CS degree
The electricians who built the grid weren't all physicists. They were practical people who understood systems and learned to work with a new kind of power safely and reliably.
You don't need to invent the models. You need to learn to wire them into real work — for yourself, for a business, for clients. That's a trade, and trades pay. Learning the wiring is exactly what the AI courses here are built to teach.
The window is open now
Every infrastructure shift has a window where the skills are scarce and the rewards are highest. We're in that window with AI.
The people who treat AI like serious infrastructure — who learn to wire it, not just chat with it — will build the next decade. The ones who wait for it to feel "normal" will be hiring the ones who didn't.
Pick up the tools now.