Written by: Haotian
Wow, no wonder this article is so popular; we all surprisingly thought of the same thing again.
After experiencing vibe coding for a while, during my hospital stay, I kept thinking: When AI flattens the threshold for "skills," where exactly is our moat as "humans"?
1) Content really doesn't matter anymore; "perspective" is the scarce asset.
When the cost of content production approaches zero infinitely, the barriers of information are completely broken. But this doesn't mean the demise of "creators"; instead, it signals the triumph of "subjectivity."
The attitude of a "human" towards all content and the firsthand experience of the world become particularly important. This is exactly what the author means by your brand = your story + worldview.
Content can be standardized by algorithms, but "perspective"—that filtering mechanism imbued with warmth, bias, and unique experiences—is where the greatest premium will lie in the future.
2) Ideas are products; the friction of execution is disappearing.
In the past, creating data dashboards or research tools involved various skill barriers. Now, just a few prompts can turn an idea into reality, then boost your own efficiency, share it with friends, or even directly monetize it as a product.
We are being forced to transition from "consumers" to "product managers." The era of "everyone is a product manager," shouted for many years, is truly arriving.
For example, I found my Claude account was unjustly banned this morning, and I heavily rely on its Project feature. I immediately used a local database + Claude Code to redesign a personal, exclusive frontend to replace the original web version of Claude. Using my own ideas to engage various underlying large models, all sorts of quirky ideas in between can be productized for my own use (this awareness and ability are crucial).
3) Farewell to the era of specialized excellence; strive to be a pioneer in the "era of generalists."
The industrial age turned people into screws (Specialists) because that was most efficient. But in the AI era, AI is the most efficient "expert." It can write more standardized code than you and calculate data faster than you. Now, the红利期 for "Generalists" has arrived.
Never entertain the idea of pursuing perfection. Once you fall into the perfectionist trap of optimizing details, the imperfections of vibe coding will make it pale in comparison to mature industrial software.
What we need to do is not compete with programmers on code elegance, but race against time on the speed of bringing creativity to life. Rather than spending a week optimizing one feature, spend an hour having AI rewrite it from a different angle. In the AI era, "done" is far more important than "perfect."
