Skills get commoditized.
Tools get copied in a weekend.
The model can do a lot of it now.
Trust can't be downloaded.
The reason people bring you the hard problem
isn't that you type fast.
It's that they've watched you
be right, be honest, be steady
enough times to bet on you.
That takes years,
and it doesn't come from any tool.
As everything technical gets cheaper,
the rare thing is the person
others trust with the decision.
Build the skill, always.
But build the reputation underneath it —
quietly, one kept promise at a time.
That's the moat
nothing automates away.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
