Found this interesting post on Hacker News and immediately thought of my blog post from May 2025: Thinking is a commodity. At the end of that post, I hint at writing another post answering the question if money matters now more than ever:
LLM thinking comes at a price, and it can think deeply if you pay more. If you do the “boring” work yourself, you fall behind. Does money matter now more than ever? Food for thought (no pun intended)
I think this post by Elliot captures my feelings very well. Here are some quoteworthy snippets from it:
The effort is gone. Effort was the filter.
When creation was hard, skill was the differentiator: you had to actually be good to make something worth showing. Now the barrier is near zero, so you need reach. Reach costs money or it costs years. Probably both.
He thinks that there’s a real chance that those without existing reach are locked out
I don’t know if we’ve already crossed a singularity on this, a point past which new entrants without existing reach or capital to buy it are effectively locked out. I think there’s a real chance we have. The uncomfortable version: if you’re not already moving, you might never take off.