We are living in an era where skills are rapidly depreciating. The emergence of AI has packaged, automated, and infinitely supplied a large number of skills that once required years of training. Ordinary skills have shifted from being "scarce abilities" to resources like infrastructure. This means that relying solely on mastering a specific skill to achieve long-term stable returns is becoming ineffective.

While skills are depreciating, the ceiling of human value has not lowered. What truly cannot be replaced are human judgment, aesthetics, and original thinking. AI can perform execution and generation, but it cannot decide for you what is worth doing, what is good, or what is meaningful. In the future, competition will fundamentally no longer be about "who is more skilled," but about "who has better judgment."

In the AI era, the focus of ability is shifting from low-level execution to high-level thinking. Logic and expression determine whether you can find truth amid information noise and communicate it clearly; aesthetics and decision-making determine what to choose and what not to choose among endless possibilities; insight determines whether you truly understand people and needs, rather than just surface data.

Autonomous action is becoming the most scarce ability. When AI greatly lowers the barriers to learning and entry, external restrictions are no longer the main obstacle. The real differentiator is whether a person has the awareness of "acting without permission." Without the will to act, even the strongest tools will only be used to repeat mediocrity.

An effective path for personal growth is no longer simply accumulating skills, but continuously honing judgment through practice. Creating personal products, openly sharing thoughts, and iterating understanding through real feedback can simultaneously train insight, expression, and decision-making skills, gradually forming an irreplaceable personal value.

The key to using AI is not about letting it do more tasks for you, but whether it expands your thinking boundaries. If you treat AI as a tool to escape thinking, human abilities will quietly be drained; only by viewing AI as a partner and using it to accomplish what was previously impossible can individuals truly amplify their creativity.

This era is shifting from "competing on time and physical effort" to "competing on thinking density and uniqueness." Tools will become increasingly powerful, but what is truly scarce are clear judgment, stable action, and the ability to continuously refine oneself. These are the core assets that AI cannot replace.