While I’m sure AI will continue to improve, it still suffers from the same issue as the search engine, which is that you need to know enough to ask the right qu

While I’m sure AI will continue to improve, it still suffers from the same issue as the search engine, which is that you need to know enough to ask the right questions. I have run into this countless times when using AI. I asked for ideas around a topic on how to solve a problem, and it seems to miss a really good solution. I bring it up, and it the says something like, “oh yeah, that is much better.” On the flip side, if I lead it with some ideas, it has trouble breaking free of that and it tells me I already have the best idea. If the topics coming together are seemingly unrelated, it takes a good prompt to get the AI to link those ideas on the path toward a solution. Just today I was asking Copilot about different ideas on how to structure a new project. I laid out some pseudo code with my initial idea, and it gave it back to me with a more complex syntax. I asked why, and if there were any advantages to the way it did it, and then it told me no, my way was better, cleaner, and the preferred way for the language. Though after pushing it some more it did suggested another alternate suggestion, which is tried to dismiss as worse, until I explained why it would actually be better. As far as I’ve seen, at least with Copilot (which is all I’m currently allowed to use at work), it’s no match for a person with some experience and knowledge when it comes to more abstract thinking.