Lena Hall: The Signal Layer - What to Build When Anything Can Be Built
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-08-30
Lena Hall argues that the ubiquity of agents has lowered the cost of average work to zero, creating a 'convergence machine' where AI yields similar answers to everyone. She posits that 'taste' is trainable preference, while the true scarce skill is 'judgment': making decisions about problems that haven't happened yet (no data) and relationships models can't see. Choosing which problem deserves an agent attack is more valuable than the build itself.
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