The Tool Made Everyone Average. Now What?

The model gives everyone a decent answer.
Instantly. For free.

That’s genuinely new.
The floor jumped up overnight.

But it took me a second to see the catch.

If everyone can reach “decent,”
then decent isn’t an edge anymore.
It’s the baseline.

The tool raised the floor for all of us.
It didn’t raise the ceiling.

The ceiling is still climbed the old way —
with judgment, depth, and taste
the model can’t hand you.

So I let it carry me to average, fast.
And I spend my real effort
on the part that’s still hard.

Average is free now.
Above it is where the work moved.

– Serguey Asael Shinder

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