When AI lets a 25-year-old match a 50-person company, then everyone does
VraserX · x · 2026-08-22
The author poses a provocative thought: when a 25-year-old can leverage AI to produce the same output as a 50-person company, it sounds empowering. But the catch is that once everyone can do it, the individual advantage vanishes. This suggests that as AI democratizes high productivity, efficiency alone will no longer be a sustainable moat.
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