The hard part flipped.
Two years ago: building was hard, distribution was easy.
Today: building is easy — one person + AI can ship what used to take a team. But distribution is brutally hard. Too much noise. Too many products. Attention is the scarce resource.
When building was the bottleneck, quality filtered naturally. Now anyone can ship in a weekend. The filter is gone.
We've moved from effort signals quality → reach signals quality.
So what's the new moat?
- Trust — people who already believe in you
- Taste — knowing what to build, not just how
- Community — exactly why places like this exist
The weird implication: social capital you built before AI might now be worth more than the technical skills you're building with AI.
fully agreed 👍💯