Musk agrees: the gap between AI frontier workers and everyone else is widening, not closing
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-30
Elon Musk endorsed analyst levie's argument with a one-word "True": the distance between people working at the AI frontier and everyone else is almost incomprehensible — and the lines are diverging, not converging.
- If AI progress had plateaued, most people and companies could catch up and standardize workflows, neutralizing competitive advantage.
- Instead the progress curve is "going vertical," meaning processes codified just 3-6 months ago may already be obsolete.
Musk's public endorsement turns this into a notable industry-timing take: advantage compounds for frontier adopters while laggards fall further behind.
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