> For the first time, tech feels like the 90's-00's again.

It feels like the opposite of 90s - 00s: they were filled with periods where a person could self-study technology and get a job using those skills that few others had.

Where we are going (according to the AI-proponents) is children being able to replace you.

In brief; the 90s - 00s were a skill-valuation time, now we are looking at a skill devaluation time.

Unless you meant to say "Just like how any kid who could write broken HTML t put up a webpage could pretend to be a skilled professional, that's where we are now"...