--- title: "The Trojan Horse Externality" date: 2026-03-23 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/2036185291468447849" tags: ['ai-agi'] deck: "'Cognitive surrender' is the psychology. The economics: the cost to verify is rising while the cost to generate collapses. Humans aren't giving up — they're priced out of checking." tweetCount: 3 likes: 109 reposts: 17 --- “Cognitive surrender” is the psychology. The economics is the Trojan Horse externality: the cost to verify is rising while the cost to generate collapses. Humans aren’t giving up… they’re priced out of checking. Which is worse! [x.com](https://twitter.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2036134704999694835) The verification layer is where all the value will be created and destroyed in the agentic era. [x.com](https://twitter.com/a16z/status/2032220250650132612) Not the execution layer. Not the model layer. The verification layer. And almost nobody is pricing it in.