The Unbundling of Expertise

Before the AI transition, the disposition to produce working code and the disposition to judge what code to write were bundled in the same person. The programmer who could execute was also the programmer who could evaluate, and the market paid for both under a single heading. The arrival of Claude Code demonstrated that the bundling was contingent, not necessary. The machine possesses the productive dispositions at scale; it does not reliably possess the evaluative ones. The dispositions unbundle, and the economic consequence is immediate: the rarity of the productive disposition collapses, the rarity of the evaluative disposition becomes visible for the first time, and the economic premium migrates from production to judgment. This is the Rylean reading of the judgment economy — not as a new economic regime, but as the exposure of a dispositional structure that was always there and always hidden.