The rarest human skill in the AI era: subtracting instead of adding
jonathan_wilke · x · 2026-09-27
jonathanwilke argues that one of the rarest human skills in today's AI-driven world is the ability to simplify — removing things rather than constantly adding. As generation gets cheap, restraint and editing become the differentiator.
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