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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

The reason I think it's important to spread the message that using modern AI tools is difficult is that I don't want people being embarrassed to ask questions about how to use them - or quietly assuming they "aren't smart enough" and giving up

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really? I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated

mhalle.bsky.social
@mhalle.bsky.social

I don't think "smart" actually has all that much to do with effective use of LLMs. Experience, sure. But I bet that good conversationalists have the most important skills: clarity, patience, curiosity, empathy. These skills translate pretty directly from human conversation to LLM chat.

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Right, I think the whole idea of being "smart enough" represents a simplified and somewhat depressing mental model of how people work

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