Should I be worried that AI will make my creative skills obsolete?

Not the skills themselves—the *unexamined* ones. A thousand years ago, writing itself was a technology that threatened oral storytellers. What survived wasn't the ability to memorize; it was the ability to think through language in new ways. The same thing is happening now. AI is very good at producing adequate work quickly. It's terrible at the slow, recursive thinking that creates something worth attention. If your skill is 'I can write faster than a human,' yes, you're in trouble. If your skill is 'I can observe deeply and articulate what I notice,' you're essential. The real obsolescence is outsourcing observation. That's what you can't delegate to a machine—the patient attention to how light falls, how people contradict themselves, how a single moment contains multitudes. That's where the work lives. Worry less about AI replacing you and more about whether you're still doing the slow work that machines can't replicate. The threat isn't technology. It's creative complacency disguised as productivity.