I mostly agree with the take that the next few years will be harder for the average person.
AI and automation are absolutely cutting into traditional jobs and raising the bar. If software is faster, cheaper, and scalable, the question becomes obvious: why hire you instead?
That part is real.
Where I disagree is the conclusion that the door is closing.
What’s actually happening is the floor is rising, not the ceiling falling.
In crypto, DeFi, and CT, the easy phase is over. The people still winning have a clear edge: technical skill, distribution, research depth, execution, capital, or speed.
That doesn’t mean everything is saturated.
It means generic effort stopped working.
There are still wide-open gaps: specialized research, infrastructure tooling, onchain data, risk management, UX, compliance, education, and real product building.
AI doesn’t remove opportunity. It removes undifferentiated work.
If you don’t have an edge today, that’s not failure. It’s feedback.
The game shifted from participation to specialization.
So the real question isn’t whether things are getting harder.
They are.
The question is: what edge are you actually building for what comes next?