--- title: The eternal complement | daily.dev description: An essay from a new OpenAI-hosted platform on 'the next economy' argues that genius alone has never been enough to drive progress — ideas require... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-eternal-complement-pntxekmii twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The eternal complement | daily.dev og:description: An essay from a new OpenAI-hosted platform on 'the next economy' argues that genius alone has never been enough to drive progress — ideas require... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-eternal-complement-pntxekmii og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pNtxekmIi.png og:image:alt: The eternal complement og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The eternal complement **[OpenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/openai)** · 15 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An essay from a new OpenAI-hosted platform on 'the next economy' argues that genius alone has never been enough to drive progress — ideas require 'institutional intelligence,' the unglamorous bureaucratic and physical infrastructure to execute them. Drawing on research showing research productivity has fallen sharply even as research effort has multiplied (e.g., sustaining Moore's Law now needs 18x more researchers than in the 1970s), the piece contrasts two possible futures: a 'civilization of depth,' where superintelligence reasons its way to breakthroughs with minimal physical experimentation, versus a 'civilization of width,' where the complexity of reality demands ever-larger physical and bureaucratic apparatus (exemplified by biology, where drugs still need large human trials). The authors speculate AI's greatest economic value may ultimately lie not in generating brilliant ideas but in performing the repetitive, organizational 'boring' work of turning ideas into reality, while humans retain a role via curiosity, comparative advantage in creative taste, and the value of variety. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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