At a startup dinner last week, someone joked: “If AI takes care of all the busywork, what’s left for us?”

I found myself thinking: we’ve always measured value by ‘what’ we get done. But now that AI can code, analyze, even write strategy docs, the real leverage shifts to ‘which’ problems get attention, and ‘why’ they matter in the first place.

If everyone suddenly has a superhuman toolkit—data, design, operations, content… all on tap—the choke point isn’t skill, but sensemaking. Framing the right questions. Spotting the real opportunities inside chaos or ambiguity. Choosing what’s meaningful to solve, not just what’s easy or profitable.

It’s less about learning technical tricks, more about cultivating taste, insight, and a kind of curiosity that can’t be faked or outsourced.

The post-AGI world isn’t one where humans are obsolete—it’s one where those who can define the game, rather than just play it, become essential.