"Word rotators" rise: AI shifts the valuable skill from spatial to verbal thinkers
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-06
Stewart Alsop jokes that the key skill of the AI era is shifting from "shape rotators" to "word rotators." As a lifelong word-person larping as a technical thinker, he finds it absurd that memorizing jargon now lets him build things on screen and in real life via AI.
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