10 essays
Machines have absorbed the analysis. What remains is the harder, stranger work of deciding which problems are worth solving at all — a judgment no model can make, because it has nothing at stake.
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When the model is the same for everyone, the only variable left is the person at the controls. The prompt is a mirror, and the work still looks like its author.
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When generation goes to zero, the scarce skill is checking. The worker who can quickly tell true from plausible is worth more than the one who can produce.
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The tools that make us instantly competent at everything are quietly retiring the one thing that ever made us grow: the discomfort of being a beginner.
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Working well with a model isn't a technical skill. It's the same skill that lets a good manager get the best out of a brilliant, overconfident, forgetful new hire.
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Forgetting isn't a flaw to fix with willpower. It's a plumbing problem, and we finally have the pipe.
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When tools make any single skill cheap, the scarce thing becomes the person who can stand between domains and translate. A case for breadth, written by someone who was told for decades that breadth was a flaw.
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Knowledge work isn't lost to laziness. It's lost in the seconds after every interruption, while the mind reboils from cold. Protecting deep blocks is the most leveraged thing a manager does all week.
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Generative tools have made competent work cheap and instant. The scarce thing left is knowing which competent thing is good — and that you have to build yourself.
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The hardest part of building anything is the moment before the first line exists. The cure is to make something bad on purpose.
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