When you prompt an AI model, it's running thousands of calculations behind the scenes to serve you the most average ans…
By O'Reilly · AI
When you prompt an AI model, it's running thousands of calculations behind the scenes to serve you the most average answer it can find. Doug Shannon argues that metacognition, the practice of questioning your questions and pushing back on the first response you get, is how you avoid getting flattened into that mean. AI isn't just a tool anymore, it's intelligence at scale, and the only way to use it well is to bring your own thinking to the table.