That shift starts with a skill our education system rarely teaches directly: problem formulation. We have spent generations training students to answer questions. Designing the question is a rarer, harder skill, and it is the one that matters most now. A vague prompt produces the intellectual equivalent of moldy cheese. A clear, constrained, intellectually ambitious question produces something worth reading. The people who get real value out of AI right now share a few traits: they are curious, they have a genuine problem they want to solve, and they are willing to fail and try again.
This entire paragraph is so interesting to me. Specifically the idea that answering a question is harder than creating the question in the first place. I'm curious as to why designing the question is harder and is deemed a rarer skill? From what I've learned in my science classes and through a science degree, the most important questions one can ask are how, why and what if. These questions are the core of scientific research.