"AI solved the doing; the hard part is now knowing what's worth doing"
ThePeterMick · x · 2026-09-23
A viral X take uses the formula "AI for marketing is solved / AI for coding is solved" to argue AI has effectively solved execution work across fields. The quoted post adds substance: writing, research, and briefs now collapse into an afternoon, but the hard part has moved—doing the work is easy now; deciding which work is worth doing is the new bottleneck.
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