Maybe this is actually the more fundamental question: What skills do humans need to retain as more and more of the execution becomes automated?

For me, that includes understanding, critical thinking, and above all the ability to properly understand a problem in the first place. But experience also matters enormously. You need to have experienced things yourself, tried them, and sometimes gotten them wrong to be able to judge whether a seemingly perfect solution actually works.

Perhaps this also changes the value of education. We may not need to train people to execute as much as possible themselves if AI can eventually do it faster. But we need to give them enough depth of understanding to guide, question and, when necessary, correct the AI.

And perhaps that is the real challenge: As we let AI take over more and more of our work, we must not simultaneously lose the skills we need to judge the AI.

Otherwise, we may eventually have increasingly capable and efficient systems, but fewer and fewer people who still know whether the result is actually right.