The scarcest AI-era talent: people with taste who can write evaluation criteria
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-16
FinanceYF5's trend list item 19: as models get better at generating ideas, the hard part becomes judging which ideas are good—making people with taste who can write evals the scarcest talent. Quoted context: once an agent makes one costly mistake, insurers will demand audits before underwriting it.
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