# What’s left

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2026/11/08/whats-left/
- Published: 2026-11-08T20:46:29+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

What can’t “AI” do? Recursive next token prediction is so powerful because it names
actions. Power is an action. AI with hands, with executing environments, with padded
enablers written by the brightest minds in software engineering and financed by 
endless pockets – that is very powerful. It can do just about anything.

So … what’s left?

Today, I think the stuff that’s left to do is whetever remains deeply baked into
human behavior, irrationality and experience modulation; not in mathematics, biology
or behavioral science.

In short terms – “know-how” is going to explode in value. Friendliness and unfiltered
candid takes. Hot takes too, RAG can only do so much, I think. Pure, raw creativity,
even using AI to express it.

But among these know how stand out.

The problem is two ended:

 * How to filter for know-how?
 * How to signal having know-how?

Since the act of making becomes generally impossible to monetize profitably, the
only resource for competing with a machine, which adapts to generate an infinite
amount of stuff, is knowing.

The machine does not know. The machine executes and does now own its execution. 
Indifferent of the artifices the labs will come up with, the truth is we don’t have
enough compute to simulate or kickstart consciousness. We don’t have the required
efficiency, and we also don’t have the required math.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth being employed. Both questions above are filtered
by corporate politics if you’re in or by automated applicant tracking systems. Is
it time to consider cooperatives?

Why can’t other high skilled labor pull a McKinsey or PWC? The up and coming generation
of workers would so deeply embrace the reshaped “consultancy firm” with a cooperative
twist. I mean if you’re living with your parents at least try to change the world
ffs!

The thing is all the leverage is in guiding the all powerful machine. That’s it.
Whether it’s because of knowing, raw talent or pure determination no corporation
can compensate you for the multiplication you drive through the use of the machine.
If it did, the markets would make no sense anymore. It’s not because they don’t 
want to. It’s just not economically sane.

Maybe, just a thought, human potential banding together creates a third player between
demand and supply: know how.

Yes. Gate keeping as a function that repressurizis the money printer. Something 
to [give value to things](https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2025/09/16/inflation-comes-from-worthlessness/).

Guilds. If we’re augmenting ourselves with machine intelligence because machines
are stupid rocks, why not guild up? Are not the engineers of tomorrow like the navigators
of Dune, seeing the future and dictating it to the hardware to make it so?