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The Barbell Era: AI Funds POV, Flattens the Middle and Now Everyone's Scared

AI accelerates what you already are: great work gets cheaper, mediocrity can’t hide. If we’re the industry of craft, let's act like it.

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Adam Cunningham
Oct 11, 2025
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The Fear Flip

In my last drop, I argued the “iPhone moment” for AI video wouldn’t arrive via a shiny new app but through an old pipe: YouTube on the living-room TV. Synthetic clips pass the sofa test, ads bankroll the compute, the format goes ambient. Distribution beats de…

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