Hard disagree. It’s not super important to be AI-pilled. You just need to be a good communicator. The tooling is a moving target, but so long as you can explain what you need well and can identify confusion or hallucination, you’ll be effective with them.
Nope. Being a good communicator and being good at AI are two completely different skillsets. Plenty of overlap, to be sure, but being good at one does not imply being good at the other any more than speaking first-language quality English means you are good at fundraising in America.
I know plenty of good communicators who aren't using AI effectively. At the very least, if you don't know what an LLM is capable of, you'll never ask it for the things it's capable of and you'll continue to believe it's incapable when the reality is that you just lack knowledge. You don't know what you don't know.