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General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really? I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated

These people don't understand the extent to which asking questions and talking to other *people* is also an open-ended skill, where some people are vastly (vastly!) better than others

Yeah that's a great point: a lot of the skill involved in using LLMs is getting really good at asking clear, unambiguous questions of the text you dump into the system - and that's a skill in itself, entirely independent of AI systems

One thing I like about LLMs is that it means kids who formerly had no venue to develop this skill now have a great place to practice and get better at it. Question-asking is near to being the master skill for human beings...

How does the kid or even an adult novice know their question-asking is lacking though? Seems they need to be motivated and also realize the chatbot responses are not good enough and then iterate?