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What makes it interesting is not what technology can do—but what it makes cheap.

The great inversion of the AI era In past eras: Skills were scarce Knowledge was power Technical mastery created advantage In the AI era: Technology accumulates Capabilities become cheap Execution is automated Answers are abundant This is why Altman’s view feels counter-intuitive but accurate: the most valuable things are no longer technical abilities. What AI makes cheap (and therefore replaceable) AI ill outperform humans at: Pattern recognition at scale Generating text, code, images, plans Optimizing known processes Reproducing best practices Imitating expertise So who gets eliminated? People who wait to be told what to do People whose value is “I know how to do X” People who follow playbooks without questioning them People who outsource judgment to systems These roles don’t disappear overnight—but they quietly lose leverage. What AI cannot fully replace Altman keeps circling back to three human capacities. Not because AI lacks intelligence—but because these sit above intelligence. ...