The Sort: AI Is Accelerating the Sorting of People into Cognitive Strata
timothyphoto · reddit · 2026-09-26
Reddit user timothyphoto shares the 'The Sort' theory from his 4-hour interview with Trey Goff: AI accelerates a long-running sorting of people by cognitive ability. Like how the brilliant 1960s local mechanic became a Toyota engineer, AI won't lift everyone equally — given identical tools, one person learns faster than ever while the other automates his own job down to an hour a week. And the first person will realize he can do the second's job too, since it's a cron job and three prompts.
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