A unicorn founder valued at $11 billion writes a 10,000-character essay: When AI renders mental labor obsolete, what value remains for ordinary people?

This is the most counterintuitive—and painful—part of the entire article. From childhood, our education has taught us 'HOW': how to solve a system of two linear equations; how to write a piece of Python code; how to polish a business email… We trade these skills for our salaries. But in Evan’s new world, 'HOW' has become utterly worthless. Why? Because AI’s ability to solve 'HOW' is ten thousand times stronger—and ten thousand times cheaper—than yours. Software development is disappearing. In the past, turning an idea into a product involved crossing a vast technical chasm: you needed expertise in servers, databases, front-end, back-end… Today, idea equals reality—immediately. That long, arduous execution process has been compressed by AI into a single Enter keypress. The role of tools has also changed. Previously, tools were passive; now, they are active. So if you’re merely a skilled craftsman, your survival space is being completely sealed off. 03 When everything becomes easy, what becomes expensive? At this point, you’ll surely panic: If AI can do everything, then what’s left for humans to do? Evan offers the ultimate answer—the very secret behind Notion’s success: taste. When the cost of generating content drops to zero, low-quality content floods the market. When everyone can use AI to build identical apps or write identical copy, where does scarcity shift? It shifts to judgment, to aesthetics, to soul. Evan says the golden age of software development has only just begun—because today’s constraint is no longer technology, but imagination. The top talent of the future won’t be those who write code fastest, but those who know what beauty is, who deeply understand human needs, and who possess a unique worldview capable of directing AI to realize it. Technology is the accelerator—but taste is the steering wheel. Without taste, you’re simply producing digital garbage—faster than ever before. 04 How can ordinary people secure their 'boarding pass'? After hearing all this, if your mindset still revolves around 'learning an AI tool to boost efficiency,' you’re thinking far too shallowly. Here are several concrete—and even somewhat counterintuitive—actionable suggestions: Suggestion One: Quit 'tactical diligence'; embrace 'strategic laziness.' Stop taking pride in 'doing it myself.' Start training yourself in the skill of command. Take any task you’re currently handling—writing a report, making a PowerPoint, designing graphics—and first hand it over to AI. Then act as a demanding 'client': 'The logic here is flawed,' 'The emotional tone here falls flat,' 'This color scheme is too tacky.' Your ability to spot flaws *is* your future market value. Suggestion Two: Aggressively upgrade your 'non-technical literacy.' Read philosophy. Study psychology. Visit art museums. Explore history. Why? Because AI is trained on *all* human data from the past—it represents the average. Only deep humanistic literacy enables you to ask questions *above* that average—and to develop intuition that AI cannot replicate. After thirty years of dominance by STEM fields, the moment of reckoning—and renaissance—for humanities graduates has arrived—*provided* you’re a humanities graduate with real depth. Suggestion Three: Become a 'super-individual,' not a 'super-screw.' Evan says future companies may consist of just two people: one person with boundless imagination—and a cloud-based army of AI agents.

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