production is permissionless

Search brought the democratization of information. AI brings the democratization of production.

What once required access to training, software, collaborators, or years of skill acquisition through writing, coding, designing, and storytelling is now partially or fully achievable through natural language.

This is production collapsed into interface.

Democratization here doesn't just mean more people can make things—it means people can make more things, faster. Ideas are no longer constrained by ability or resource. That’s both empowering and destabilizing.

“Value drift” describes the shift from creation to curation and intent. Idea over execution. As production becomes ubiquitous, what matters isn't just what gets made but why, how, and what it signals. Even though AI can generate endlessly, the value lies in how people frame, edit, and contextualize that output.

Still, power is unequally distributed. While AI extends capabilities broadly, the benefits are shaped by access, literacy, and platform ownership. So democratization is real, but incomplete. It's always filtered through social and economic context.

Production is now permissionless.