A prompt can’t replace people skills and people skills don’t go out of date.
Listening to people is how you learn which problems actually matter and if you solve a problem that actually matters nobody cares if you did or didn’t use AI.
Showcasing your skills is not a problem other people care about.
“How can I help?” is a useful approach. And a fresh one.
Open plan offices aren't going away and nothing will really change because open plan offices have long been used where lots of people spend all day talking on the phone.
Acoustic privacy is has two components. Attenuation is the obvious one. Masking is the one that's not. Controlling rather than minimizing white noise from air-conditioning is the ordinary approach by professionals.
Of course, a lot of open office designs are driven by "taste" rather than judgement informed by experience and science. So you get hard floors and hard ceilings instead of carpet and acoustic tile (it's right in the name, duh) and complaints.
In other words, it's a solved problem. Poor choices aren't.
Buffalo shipped the WZR series routers with DD-WRT. But they stopped making them when the FCC restricted router firmware about a decade ago.
I bought a pair of them at the time. Kept one (N600) until I needed a 'mesh' and sold it on eBay about four years ago. Replaced it with an Orbi system that doesn't need to phone home (not sure such things are still available in the consumer market).
The ones that I had came with Buffalo firmware but you could load DD-WRT on them through the web ui. To load OpenWrt you had to use tftp and catch it during boot.
I ended up adding support for the G300NH2 model for OpenWrt.
Listening to people is how you learn which problems actually matter and if you solve a problem that actually matters nobody cares if you did or didn’t use AI.
Showcasing your skills is not a problem other people care about.
“How can I help?” is a useful approach. And a fresh one.
Good luck.
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