Thái Anh Đức

November 23, 2025

You still need to learn the skill of asking

There are two parts of AI: Building and Consuming.

Building is mostly carried out by big tech companies. They have talent and material resources. For the rest of the humanity, we can ignore this part. We cannot do much. We cannot move a needle or stop an inch.

Consuming is widely adopted by most. And some confuse with the Building. When developers build AI-enabled applications, they are consumers. They build products to bridge the next level of consumers with AI. The next level consumers is people who write to AI-enabled applications. Some call it "communicate." But it is not true. Usually, users ask questions or click a button and the AI-enabled application will respond.

There are many layers in Consuming. At its core, it is about "ask questions" and "receive responses." Note that you do not receive an answer. AI only responds to your input, whether it is a question, a statement, or a "hi."
 
For many, here comes the challenge. How to ask? AI cannot help you much if you ask stupid questions or even worse do not know how and what to ask. Technologies cannot help you form questions. Technologies can help you send the questions and look for possible answers.

Do you know what and how to ask questions with another human being? If not, what make you think you can do better with AI, a machine?

About Thái Anh Đức

Software architect from Việt Nam. Partner at https://ritvn.com/.  Train with Kettlebells. Run with minimal shoes and sandals.