Workforce AI strategies were built on an assumption that has not survived contact with the labor market: that younger workers would naturally carry AI fluency into organizations, reducing the need for structured training. That assumption treated consumer AI behavior — casual, high-frequency tool use — as equivalent to professional AI literacy. The Hacker News posts that surfaced this gap in the same week were not reporting on a trend; they were documenting a gap that institutional planning had already missed. The workers investing most seriously in AI skills are…