Short term, I think so.

But I think that's highly dependent on if we've hit diminishing returns on LLMs yet, or if the US Gov (if you are US based) is going to continue to restrict models over a certain parameter count, or models trained on a certain level of compute, etc. and pull additional models after they've pulled Fable/Mythos.

If Opus 4.8/GPT 5.5 ends up being the strongest model the government allows to be publicly available, then yeah, specialization will be helpful.

If we haven't yet hit diminishing returns, and models continue to improve, and they don't get pulled off the market, then I think the opposite may become true in ~5+ years and that being a generalist will be more beneficial. Knowing enough to be dangerous across a huge variety of verticals, with AI assistance for more obscure stuff.

I would say the opposite.

The main value I add to AI generated work is my ability to generalize, keep broader spans of context than the AI can, and make connections between things that the AI cannot.