AI literacy should be about emotional regulation, not prompting, says researcher
random_walker · x · 2026-11-04
Security researcher randomwalker (Ars Technica) argues that working with AI means perpetually recalibrating your mental model of AI capabilities and your own job every few months — avoiding both delusions of infinite productivity and fear of losing the "uniquely human" part of your job, while tolerating agents' jagged clumsiness. His takeaway: AI literacy needs to focus less on prompting and more on emotional regulation.
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