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🤖 WHAT AI SKILL DO YOU WANT TO LEARN OR IMPROVE IN 2026?

There have been several interesting discussions here recently about Artificial Intelligence, jobs and the careers that may be affected by AI.

Instead of concentrating only on:

"Will AI take my job?"

I think we should also be asking:

"What AI skill can I learn now that will make me better at my job, business or future career?"


SO I WANT TO ASK NAIRALANDERS:

If you could learn or seriously improve ONE AI-related skill right now, what would it be?

It could be:

1. AI-assisted Coding / Vibe Coding
2. AI Video Generation
3. AI Image Generation
4. Data Analysis with AI
5. Business Automation
6. AI Agents
7. Prompt Engineering / Working with LLMs
8. Digital Marketing with AI
9. Building AI Applications
10. ComfyUI
11. Self-hosted AI / Running AI Models Yourself
12. Cloud GPU
13. AI Voice Generation
14. AI Content Creation
15. AI for your existing profession — Engineering, Accounting, Healthcare, Education, Business, etc.

Or maybe there is something completely different that you want to learn.


🎓 HERE'S WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH THE RESPONSES

If there is enough interest in a particular subject, I'm willing to teach and mentor interested Nairaland members directly here on Nairaland.

THE TRAINING AND MENTORSHIP WILL BE 100% FREE.

We can create a dedicated Nairaland learning thread for each subject that gets enough interest and take it step by step from beginner level into practical projects.

For example:

If enough people want to learn AI Video Generation, we create a dedicated AI Video Generation learning thread.

If people want AI Automation, we create another learning thread for that.

The same can be done for AI-assisted coding, ComfyUI, Cloud GPU, AI Agents and other subjects where I can practically contribute.


🛠️ NOT JUST TUTORIALS — LET'S BUILD THINGS

Where possible, I'll:

• Answer questions
• Give practical exercises and projects
• Help troubleshoot problems
• Demonstrate real workflows
• Share useful tools and resources
• Share things I'm personally building, testing and learning

The objective is simple:

Don't just learn about AI. Actually BUILD something with it.


💻 TECHWITHTEDDY AI & TECH COMMUNITY

I'm already building the TechWithTeddy AI & Tech Community around this same idea of practical and accessible AI & Tech education.

But I also want to make useful training available directly here on Nairaland, so interested Nairalanders don't necessarily have to leave the forum to participate.

No course fee. No training fee.

If there is enough interest, we simply create the appropriate Nairaland learning thread and start.


👇 HOW TO INDICATE YOUR INTEREST

Reply with these 3 things:

✅ 1. What ONE AI skill do you want to learn or improve?

✅ 2. What is your current level?
Complete Beginner / Beginner / Intermediate

✅ 3. What do you want to use the skill for?
Career / Business / Freelancing / Personal Projects / Other


I'll use the responses to see which subjects have the most interest.

If several people choose the same subject, we'll know which dedicated learning thread to start first.


Mine:

I'm currently going deeper into self-hosted generative AI, AI video, automation and building practical AI systems.


🤖 YOUR TURN:

If you could become very good at ONE AI skill over the next 6–12 months, what would you choose — and why?

I think we're looking at this too much as “Which careers will AI replace?”

AI doesn't have to eliminate an entire profession before it affects employment. If a company previously needed 10 people for a particular workload and AI allows 6 people to produce the same output, the profession still exists, but AI has already changed the job market.

That's why I wouldn't advise a young person to simply look for an “AI-proof career.” I think the better strategy is to become AI-augmented in whatever serious profession you choose.

A graphic designer who understands AI-assisted workflows will work differently from one who ignores them. The same applies to developers, engineers, accountants, marketers, data analysts and many other professions.

At the same time, knowing how to prompt ChatGPT isn't a replacement for domain knowledge. You still need to understand the subject well enough to know when AI is wrong, what problem is worth solving and whether its output makes sense in the real world.

This is actually one of the ideas we're exploring in the TechWithTeddy AI & Tech Community - a 100% free community focused on practical AI, coding, automation, generative AI and how these technologies can be combined with existing professional skills. The emphasis is on learning and building, not just talking about AI.

So instead of asking only “Will AI take my career?”, I'd ask:

“Which parts of my work can AI already do, which parts can AI help me do much faster, and which human/domain skills should I strengthen?”

I think people who start answering those three questions now will be in a much better position as AI continues to improve.

So if I were starting Data Analytics today, I wouldn't abandon SQL, Python, statistics or visualization because of AI. I would learn those fundamentals alongside AI and automation, and learn how to use AI to do the repetitive parts faster.

This is also something we've been exploring in the free TechWithTeddy AI & Tech Community - not just learning individual AI tools, but understanding how AI, coding and automation can be combined with existing professional skills.

My view is that AI probably won't make learning technical skills pointless. It changes which skills give you leverage and how quickly you can apply them.

Nice project. I particularly like the decision to process the images client-side instead of uploading users' files to a server. For a simple image converter, privacy and speed are good selling points.

One thing I'm curious about though: since the web version already runs client-side, did you consider making it an installable PWA instead of wrapping it into an Android APK?

For this type of utility, a PWA could potentially give users an app-like experience while keeping one codebase and avoiding the friction of downloading/sideloading an APK outside the Play Store.

I would also consider adding batch conversion if you haven't already. Being able to drop 20–50 images, choose WebP/JPG/PNG, set quality/compression and convert/download them together would make this much more useful for people working with websites and social media.

Nice to see people actually building and sharing useful tools here. Keep improving it.

I actually like the UI. It's clean, consistent and doesn't feel like a rough developer prototype. The PWA approach is also a good decision because someone can test it without going through an app store installation.

The main thing I would change isn't really the design it's the positioning.

When I land on the homepage I see messaging, voice notes, media sharing, stories, voice rooms and AI. They are good features, but my immediate question is: what can Nexa do for me that WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord doesn't already do?

I think that answer needs to hit me within the first few seconds of opening the homepage.

For example, instead of leading mainly with “Messaging that feels effortless”, identify the ONE thing Nexa intends to become exceptionally good at and build the hero section around that. The other features can support it.

One other small observation: you say “Find friends by phone number” in the hero section, while the Getting Started section says “Search for friends by username or share your profile link.” I would make that onboarding/discovery message very clear and consistent.

Overall though, I like that you actually built and deployed something people can test instead of just discussing an idea. Keep building.

The price will depend on what exactly you expect the editor to handle.

If you provide the script, voice-over and all the footage, and the person's job is mainly to edit everything into a finished news video, that's one price.

But if the editor has to research the story, source footage/images, write or clean up the script, handle voice-over, graphics, captions, sound, thumbnail and final editing, that's practically a complete content-production service and should be priced much higher.

Also, since you're talking about one video every day, I wouldn't recommend pricing it as 30 individual videos. Agree on a monthly package after defining the average video length and exactly what you will provide.

If you can state the average duration of each video and whether you will provide the script, voice-over and footage, people here can give you a much more realistic price.

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Good topic, but I think it would be more helpful if some of the actual editing tips were included here too, especially for beginners.

For anniversary photos, I would focus first on good colour correction, natural skin tones, exposure, removing distractions and keeping skin retouching subtle. One common mistake is over-smoothing faces until people start looking artificial.

Also, you don't necessarily need expensive software to start learning this. Photoshop is excellent, but beginners can also practise with free tools such as GIMP or Photopea, while DaVinci Resolve Free is a very good option when the anniversary project includes video.

The important thing is learning the fundamentals rather than depending too much on presets and filters.

Nice work bro. Just a little constructive feedback if you're serious about getting more clients with these designs, I think it would be worth updating your design style a bit to match current standards.

Pay more attention to typography, spacing, alignment, colour combinations and visual hierarchy. Some of the designs have too many elements competing for attention, while some of the text is difficult to read.

You already have the foundation. I think studying more recent social media/brand designs and practising cleaner, more minimal layouts would make a big difference. Keep improving 👍

Techwave:
Capcut at 7 bands monthly and Adobe cc at 13,500 monthly

If you're a new user and you're open to learning something new, I’d recommend trying DaVinci Resolve Free before paying monthly for CapCut or Adobe.

The free version is already very powerful for video editing, colour grading, audio, effects and even motion graphics through Fusion. There’s definitely a learning curve, but what you learn can take you quite far professionally.

You can always move to Adobe or another tool later if your workflow specifically requires it. But for someone starting from scratch, DaVinci Resolve Free is worth considering first.

I think there is another angle to this discussion: learning AI vs actually owning an AI workflow.

I work mostly around generative AI media, and one thing that pushed me deeper technically was the amount of money you can burn buying credits from different AI video platforms.

So instead of only learning how to prompt those platforms, I've been working on self-hosting AI video generation models on cloud GPUs and turning the technical backend into a simpler workflow.

You don't necessarily need to own an expensive GPU. The GPU can be rented only when generation is needed, while the actual models/workflow remain under your control.

That's where I think “learn AI” becomes more interesting.

Don't just learn Python, prompting, automation or a particular AI website in isolation. Pick something you already want to produce or a problem you understand, then learn enough AI to build the workflow around it.

For me that happens to be AI video generation. For someone else here it could be roofing estimates, customer support, medical administration, agriculture, accounting or lead generation.

Once you approach it that way, the question changes from “Which AI course should I take?” to “What can I build with what I'm learning?”

I'm currently documenting my experiments around making self-hosted AI video generation practical for people who don't want to keep burning credits on every generation. Still testing and refining it, but the economics are becoming very interesting.

What is his name? Let us know.