LLMs Make Adding Easy but Tasteful Deleting Scarcer, Argues Alsop
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-05
Stewart Alsop III observes that finding people to add to a project or business has always been easy, but few can "delete tastefully." LLMs make this worse: generating and stacking new features or content is now nearly free, making the rare skill of subtraction and curation even more valuable.
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