In the AI era, when intelligence becomes as cheap as cabbage, your efforts will be worthless, the only way out for ordinary people.
When intelligence becomes as cheap as cabbage, your efforts will be worthless! A long article worth reading five times by every ordinary person in the AI era! The ten-thousand-word prophecy from Notion founder worth billions!
In the past, studying hard to acquire a skill could earn you decent income and high-paying jobs. You were coding, creating PPTs, writing copy, designing... thinking that the harder you worked, the more valuable you became. But now, everything has changed.
Notion founder Ivan Zhao, leading the team to achieve a valuation of over a hundred billion dollars (even higher), his recent interviews and articles hit everyone like a heavy blow: 'Intelligence is becoming as cheap as cabbage.' Why? Because AI has arrived. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Midjourney, Sora... these technologies have reduced the cost of cognitive labor, which once required high salaries, to zero instantly. The programming skills you honed over ten years? AI can write better than you in seconds. The plans, reports, and copy you stayed up late to create? AI generates them with one click, with quality comparable to the human median. Your proud attributes of 'execution ability,' 'diligence,' and 'attention to detail'? They are worthless in front of the infinitely cheap 'infinite brain.' The harsh truth: how you do it (How) is no longer valuable.