Here's an uncomfortable truth:

The scariest thing about AI isn't that it's "too smart"—it's that it's too standardized.
The copy it writes scores 80/100. The PowerPoint it creates scores 80/100. The code it writes scores 80/100. Everything is an 80.
What does that mean? It means people who used to get by on "pretty good" work are getting wiped out. Your output quality is basically the same as AI's, but you need a salary, you need rest, and you have mood swings. The boss isn't stupid.
McKinsey's data from last year: 60% of jobs have at least 30% of their tasks that can be AI-standardized. Notice the terminology—not "eliminated," but "standardized and replaced." You're still there, but the part of your skills that's easiest to quantify? It's worthless now.
So ironically, the real competitive moat is now those "non-standard" things: aesthetic intuition, weird cross-disciplinary experiences, the ability to make judgments in chaos, even your biases and obsessions—AI can't learn these because it's been trained to be too "correct."
AI raised the floor, but the ceiling is still human.
The problem is, most people have always been living on the floor.