Judgment Is the Job Now

The doing is getting cheap.

Writing, drafting, generating,
producing the first version of almost anything —
the tools do it fast,
and they're only getting faster.

So the value moves.

Not to whoever can produce,
but to whoever can judge.
What's good. What's worth doing.
Which of ten options
is the one that actually fits.

That's the part
the tools can't do for you.
They'll hand you infinite output
with no opinion
about which of it deserves to exist.

The opinion is the job now.

Taste. Discernment.
Knowing what matters
and what to throw away.
Standing behind a decision
because you can defend it,
not because a model suggested it.

Learn the tools, of course.

But invest hardest
in the judgment
that decides what to point them at.

The machine can generate.
Deciding is still yours.

Judgment is the job now.

– Serguey Asael Shinder