> I am starting to think that expressing thoughts in words clearly is probably the most important and general skill of the future.

Without question.

AI will be indistinguishable from having a team. Communicating clearly has always and will always mattered.

This, however, is even stronger. Because you can program and use logic in your communications.

We're going to collectively develop absolutely wild command over instruction as a society. That's the skill to have.

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adamhartenz an hour ago | parent | next [-]

How can AI be the amazing thing you say it is, but also too stupid to understand unless you get really good at communicating. Wouldn't better AI just mean it understands your ramblings better?

	▲	pickleRick243 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's fine if the "rambling" is logically coherent. So the communication ability isn't really about expressing your thoughts eloquently, but just effectively and clearly. Run on sentences and train of thought is fine as long as you are saying something meaningful. But no AI will be able to read your mind and know exactly what you mean by "make really cool looking website, not lame please, also nice colors, not boring". Declarative programming through natural language will become incredibly powerful.
	▲	raincole 38 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Many humans are great at their expertise but bad at communicating. How?

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yreg 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On the other hand LLMs are getting very good at understanding poorly constructed instructions as well.

So being able to express oneself clearly in a structured way may not be such an edge.