![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cm_n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8388b90e-b59b-46de-8a81-02d09cc6b3eb_2048x1536.jpeg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Joe Reis]] - Full Title:: The "X Is Dead" Fallacy - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://joereis.substack.com/p/the-x-is-dead-fallacy - Read date:: [[2026-08-10]] ## Highlights > You’re welcome to argue that gravity is overrated, but I wouldn’t test the theory off a cliff. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kzmyxy20nd580yef47y32x6b)) > models make artifacts cheap to produce, and when generation gets cheap, the bottleneck moves to judgment, context, evaluation, architecture, and figuring out whether the thing you just generated is correct. But since we don’t read as much and the pile of artifacts is piling up, good luck. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kzmz0dv3w8865wfs4bfxrn9m))