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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

(I get so sad when I hear people dismiss their own ability to learn things, I expect that the real problem is that they were given an inaccurate mental model of the level of difficulty involved and how much work they would need to put in - I see this for learning to program all the time)

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