Verifiable tasks will be worth zero as AI commoditizes them; profits lie in taste and ambiguity
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-10-11
Quoting @quxiaoyin's thesis: any task whose success is finitely and unambiguously defined will trend to zero value — OpenAI's math proofs look impressive, but players like DeepSeek will replicate them and drive costs down to electricity prices. Real profit lives in taste/judgment work with no consensus definition of "good" — vibe-driven, controversial, ambiguous. One caveat: coming up with verifiable tasks in the first place remains valuable, since that ability isn't itself verifiable.
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