Terry Tao: solving problems is getting easier than finding good ones to solve
sebpaquet · x · 2026-09-09
Mathematician Terry Tao highlights an inversion underway: as AI makes solving problems increasingly easy, identifying the right problems to solve is becoming the scarcer skill. A commenter suggests giving people credit for posing good problems — which the poster calls the way forward.
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