Terry Tao: spotting promising problems is the scarce resource in the AI era
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-10
Quoting Terence Tao: "it is now the identification of a promising problem which is the scarce and precious resource." The reposter notes this has long held in economics and management, and that in math too, finding and framing open problems will matter far more in the AI era.
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