The last era was dominated by the Generic Technocrat.

Competent. Consensus. Specialized.

The kind of team filler that made big ideas happen by executing competently on the piece they were an expert in.

Now, LLMs provide super-human competent, consensus work to everybody for basically free.

The next era will be owned by the Distinctive Generalists.

The people who are "comb shaped" and can marshall the LLMs on many different domains.

But also who have a specific non-consensus perspective that stands out from the crowd.

Before, if you had a distinctive take but didn't have technocrats to do the knowledge work to build it, it didn't matter.

Now we have infinite technocrats.