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A piece going around says the consultant's edge is moving from taste to the nerve to decide. Its "decisiveness" glues two things together, and only one of them is a skill AI can't already do.

I said taste was judgment renamed. Trying to pull the two words apart, I found I could — and the difference is what the moat argument keeps hiding.

Everyone repeats that taste is the moat in the AI era, but almost nobody says what taste is in a given job. It's domain judgment, renamed.

AI agents make individual output cheaper before they make organizations better at deciding what should exist.