OpenAI Exec: AI Makes Execution Cheap, the Real Bottleneck is Taste
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-10
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman quoted and agreed with the perspective that the bottleneck in the current AI era is increasingly about "knowing what you want."
The quoted tweet further elaborates that as AI technology makes the marginal cost of execution extremely cheap, the core challenge for the future is no longer "how to do the work," but rather teaching "taste"—specifically, how to recognize what work is actually worth doing.
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