If AI is a force multiplier, then those who start with a higher baseline will pull even further ahead.

The author is using R and ggplot2 for their plots now without learning to program. This required them to be aware of these tools, and to appreciate how that is better than other alternatives for their use case. That's intelligence too. We will still need to make sense of what AI is doing, and I think that particular kind of intelligence will have a lot of value.