@jaesmail: Core argument is that AI commoditizes yesterday's competence, which creates sameness, which creates demand for differen…
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A Twitter thread argues that AI commoditizes yesterday's competence, creating sameness and increasing demand for human differentiation through narrative framing and organizational worldview.
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Core argument is that AI commoditizes yesterday’s competence, which creates sameness, which creates demand for difference. A few loose thoughts:
- Dan says the value moves to the “framer,” the human who supplies live judgment that the model can’t generate. How do you keep the “frame” consistent across an organization?
- The frame problem is a narrative problem before it’s a talent problem. A company without a worldview has no basis for distinguishing its AI-assisted output from anyone else’s.
- This is why I’m less excited about “10x employees” or whatever the new meta is. Hiring competent people doesn’t solve the slop problem at scale. Individual taste compounds only against a company’s philosophy of business.
- Who is building the narrative infrastructure to frame every output against what they actually believe?
Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper): We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.
And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.
I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand
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