> It probably won't cost too much time to catch up
That's a risky bet. It is more likely that the user interface of AI will evolve. Some things will stick, some will not. Three years from now, many things that are clunky now will be replaced by more intuitive things. But some things that already work now will still be in place. People who have been heavy users of AI between now and then will definitely have a leg start on those who will just start then.
In general, I'm not too afraid of UI - those are usually very learnable in a short amount of time. It's the underlying concepts and abstractions that take more time to pick up, but right now, a lot of them seem to be based on observations (or just general "feels") of the behaviour of particular models, of which new ones appear every year.
That's a risky bet. It is more likely that the user interface of AI will evolve. Some things will stick, some will not. Three years from now, many things that are clunky now will be replaced by more intuitive things. But some things that already work now will still be in place. People who have been heavy users of AI between now and then will definitely have a leg start on those who will just start then.