From Knowledge to Allocation Economy in the Age of AI
danshipper · x · 2026-08-11
Dan Shipper explores how AI fundamentally shifts the nature of work, arguing we are moving from a 'Knowledge Economy' to an 'Allocation Economy.'
With AI summarizing and generating knowledge instantly, the primary skill is no longer information retrieval but compute allocation. Every maker becomes a manager, deciding which problems are worth spending compute on and acting as a 'thought partner' to rigorously verify AI-generated insights.
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