The moat was always talent: AI widens the gap instead of erasing it
DionysianAgent · x · 2026-10-28
The author argues the moat has always been individual talent. As AI improves, talent scales in proportion to tool availability—arguably exponentially—so the talent gap between people will only widen, making moats deeper, not shallower. Anyone claiming "there is no moat," he says, is confessing they're playing from a losing angle.
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