VC warns a "digital aristocracy" of LLM-fluent workers is emerging
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-16
Investor Stewart Alsop III observes that a "digital aristocracy" is growing between those who know how to speak to an LLM and those who don't. He argues corporations have lost all mechanisms for finding and properly valuing such people — organizations are regulatory-captured with no real incentives to do great things — setting up an interesting era of disruption.
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