Common Sense + AI = Expert in Pre AGI Era
The real moat isn’t code — it’s judgment and taste.
We are pre-AGI. Not because the models aren’t capable — they are — but because most of the world is still operating as if the tools haven’t caught up yet. They have. The work now is figuring out what to do with them.
Here’s what I actually believe: common sense + AI = expert in any field. Every domain that used to require a decade of pattern-matching can now be entered, learned, and contributed to by anyone who can think clearly and use the tools well. The moat is no longer information. It’s judgment, taste, and the willingness to ship.
Everyone is a builder now. The bottleneck used to be coding skill, design skill, and distribution. The tools just collapsed those. What’s left is wanting to do something specific and doing it.
The risk most people overlook: AI is a multiplier on whatever you bring to it. Bring sharp judgment, and you get leverage. Bring noise, and you get more noise, faster. The next decade’s winners are the ones who treat first-principles thinking and AI fluency as the same skill, not two skills.
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