SahilBloom Locksmith Paradox
The Sequoia partner is borrowing Sahil Bloom's framing to articulate a pain point AI builders keep learning the hard way: customers pay for perceived effort, and AI is deleting the visible part. The analogy lands — but it may understate how quickly norms will adapt, since markets already price pure outcomes in fields like medicine or law, and AI will accelerate that shift rather than break it.… more
The sharper consequence is only hinted at in the quote: when a 30-second masterpiece is indistinguishable from a 30-year one, provenance, taste and trust become the genuinely scarce goods. That is where the next wave of AI products will actually compete.
.@SahilBloom's The Locksmith Paradox hit my inbox through multiple sources over the weekend. It is definitely worth reading and worth considering how it applies to our work in the world of AI. The punchline, though you should read the entire article:
"AI is increasingly enabling effort, expertise, and mastery to hide in the background. It's shifti…
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