Two Key Skills for the AI Era: Compute Allocation and Thought Partnership
EricBuess · x · 2026-08-11
The post highlights two essential skills for working effectively with AI:
- Compute allocation: Deciding which problems are worth spending compute on, rather than expecting a pre-defined list of priorities.
- Thought partnership: Deeply understanding and verifying the AI's generated logic or proofs instead of blindly trusting the output.
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