AI lowered the floor, our work now is the ceiling

AI made the first draft free, and most people read that as the great equalizer. This talk argues the opposite: when a rough version costs five minutes instead of five days, the only thing left that separates people is judgment. What to hand off and what to keep, the instinct for when something is quietly wrong, and the concrete decisions that separate a demo from something that holds up with real users: guardrails, evals, cost per inference, and knowing when not to use an agent at all.