Scarcity in AI is now compute, domain expertise, and taste
rakyll · x · 2026-07-23
- The post argues that scarcity is now concentrated in three things:
- compute capacity, which is objective and measurable
- people with domain knowledge, which is harder to quantify
- people with good taste, which is mostly subjective
It frames AI-era scarcity as shifting away from raw access to compute and toward the scarce combination of expertise and judgment.
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