Here’s your ONE drop:
AI made everyone capable of everything. Which means no one knows who's actually good at anything.
When a tool levels the playing field, it erases the signs of expertise.
Everyone can design, write, produce, illustrate. The question isn't what you can make anymore, It's why anyone should believe you know what the hell you're doing.
Bumped into the Picasso napkin story last week. You know it... someone asks Picasso to sketch on a napkin, he does, charges a fortune. The person protests, "But it only took you five minutes." Picasso replies, "No, it took me forty years."
Probably fake. Earliest version shows up in 1984. The real version was a different painter in court, in 1878. Someone slapped Picasso's name on it later (better for motivational posters, I guess).
But forget whether it's true. Focus on why it worked. The drawing wasn't valuable because of time. It was valuable because of certainty. Picasso knew it was right. No revisions. No second-guessing.
Now anyone can produce a "Picasso-style" napkin in thirty seconds. Midjourney will give you the exact style. Same speed. Probably cleaner lines. But most outputs are mediocre. And most people can't tell the difference.
Your value isn't in what you make anymore, it's in whether anyone knows you can tell good from garbage before they hire you.
AI can give anyone the ability to draw. It can't give them forty years of knowing which drawing to keep.
// Ann