Underlying Logic Observation Notes 17: How Ordinary People Find Their Position in the Computing Power Era

From Underlying Logic Observation Notes

In this article, we bring the “computing power era” down from grand national competition and industrial structure to practical choices that ordinary people can grasp, choose, stand firm on, and leap forward.

This is not a technical tutorial, not AI tool training, not coding lessons. It is the underlying logic of survival, development, and upward mobility that ordinary people must master in the AI and computing power era.

Following the previous 16 articles: structure, era position, cross-era competitiveness, leapfrogging, certainty, computing power landscape… Personal destiny in the computing power era comes down to one thing: choose the right position, stand in the right structure.

1. The Computing Power Era Is a Position Revolution

Many people misunderstand the computing power era as only for:

• Programmers
• Tech companies
• Highly educated STEM graduates

But the real computing power era is a full-scale position restructuring: Everyone’s value, job, track, and ceiling are being redefined.

AI does not exist to replace one group of people. AI exists to reallocate the entire social value chain.

Where you stand in the value chain directly determines whether you are replaced, augmented, or exponentially amplified.

2. The Core Logic: Not What AI Can Do, but Who AI Will Replace

AI is not omnipotent, but it is a highly structured, efficient, low-cost structural replacer.

It will steadily replace:

• Repetitive, standardized, process-based jobs
• Low-judgment, low-creativity, low-decision roles
• Low-value, low-threshold, easily copied positions
• Roles dependent on experience and routine

It will strongly empower:

• High-judgment, high-choice, high-decision roles
• High-creativity, high-integration, high-output positions
• High-structure, high-value, hard-to-replace jobs
• People who collaborate with and master AI

The heart of the computing power era is never “how strong AI is,” but: Which layer of the value chain you stand on, and which point in the structure you occupy.

3. Three Fates in the Computing Power Era

In the next decade, everyone will fall into three categories:

1. Replaced

Jobs directly covered, compressed, or eliminated by AI. Value drops to near zero, trapped in endless downward competition.

2. Augmented

AI becomes your “external brain” and super tool. Efficiency multiplies, value rises steadily, career security and stable income.

3. Amplified

You stand above computing power and AI as an AI-driven talent, creator, or decision-maker. One person equals ten, a hundred, or a thousand others. Value grows exponentially, achieving class mobility.

The computing power era is not an era of elimination. It is an era of intense stratification.

The dividing line is not effort, education, or background. It is position and structure.

4. Five Practical Paths to Find Your Position

These five paths are realistic, actionable, and stable for ordinary people, each built on the logic of the previous 16 articles.

Path 1: From Executor to Decision-Maker

AI excels at execution, process, repetition, and standardization. It struggles with judgment, choice, decision-making, responsibility, and value trade-offs.

The most scarce, secure, and valuable role in the future is not someone who “gets things done,” but someone who “decides what to do, what not to do, and what priorities are.”

Shift from:

• Executing tasks
• Following processes
• Obeying instructions

To:

• Structured judgment
• Key decision-making
• Resource integration
• Risk assessment
• Goal definition

Judgment is the top core position in the computing power era.

Path 2: From Single Skills to Unique Skill Combinations

AI can easily master any single skill: copywriting, spreadsheets, design, coding, data, customer service, operations…

Single skills depreciate rapidly and are easily replaced.

But AI struggles to replace unique, scarce, cross-domain skill combinations.

The most valuable combinations include:

• Tech literacy × deep industry experience
• Data analysis × project management
• Writing & expression × structured thinking
• AI tool mastery × real business insight

The more unique, scarce, and hard to copy your combination, the more stable your position and higher your ceiling.

Path 3: From Involution to Cross-Domain Integration

In the AI era, single-domain experts are common. What’s scarce is people who connect multiple fields and create new value.

Classic high-value combinations:

• AI × healthcare
• AI × education
• AI × manufacturing
• AI × finance
• AI × supply chain
• AI × content/brand

Cross-domain integration is the best path for ordinary people to avoid red oceans, seize blue oceans, and leap forward.

Path 4: From Tool User to Tool Master

The threshold of the future is not “whether you can use AI,” but: Can you make AI create value for you stably, continuously, and at scale?

Tool users (basic):

• Can use ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc.
• Only simple prompts and operations

Tool masters (core):

• Use AI to solve real business problems
• Use AI to boost efficiency and cut costs
• Use AI to generate income and amplify output
• Use AI to restructure processes and create new roles

Tool use is standard. Tool mastery is the high-value position.

Path 5: From Job Thinking to Value-Chain Thinking

The wrong question in the computing power era: “What job should I get?”

The right question: “Which layer of the entire value chain am I on?”

Higher on the value chain means:

• Harder to replace by AI
• Easier to be amplified by AI
• More access to resources and opportunities
• Higher income and upward mobility

Value-chain thinking is your position map in the computing power era.

5. Five Structural Positions Worth Betting On

These are not short-term fads. They are long-term rising, structurally stable, cycle-resistant positions:

1. AI-Augmented Roles

People who collaborate with AI, get amplified, and boost efficiency.

2. Computing Chain Roles

Chips, data centers, computing networks, operation, engineering, scheduling.

3. New Energy & High-End Manufacturing Engineers

The most stable and reliable structural track for the next decade.

4. Global Supply Chain Positions

Experts in processes, security, cross-border operations, and risk.

5. Influence Positions in Content & Expression

Communication is a value amplifier and personal brand springboard.

6. Position Matters Far More Than Effort

In the next decade, you don’t need to be an AI expert, coder, or PhD.

You only need four things:

• Stand on the rising force of computing power and AI
• Stand in the right track of structural trends
• Stand on the upper layer of the value chain
• Stand on the side augmented and amplified by AI

The computing power era does not eliminate ordinary people. It eliminates those who stand in the wrong place, refuse to move, and are trapped in old structures.

7. The Ultimate Position: Always Have a Choice

The essence of the computing power era is not fiercer competition, but the reallocation of global value and positions.

Your position determines everything: income, security, growth, freedom, choices, future.

The ultimate standard of a top position:

• In a rising structure
• High on the value chain
• Inside AI’s amplification effect
• On a long-term irreversible trend

The ultimate underlying logic: Find your position. Make AI your power, not your opponent.