I kept my to my niche.
Now I can build anything, but as I'm building it, I try to understand at least how it works. So I'm constantly asking questions. In the process, I think of my prior engineering skill as somewhat childlike. As I thought I was a decent engineer, I now see that I was decent at some things, but far from the kind of breadth that the wide engineering world has.
I think the takeaway is that you should always be curious and build things. Whether it's writing or discussing with an language model, writing software by hand, or creating software with a model and understanding it, I think you have the same effect.
This is the way!
AI is the best technology ever invented for avoiding learning things. It’s also the best technology ever invented for learning things.
I think it’s very important to be on your guard for accidentally glazing over your understanding, but if understanding is your goal, there are so many more tools for this now.
With writing I think it's the same thing.
Let it organize and work with your thoughts, as you say, how you say, as you do it.
Once that is clear, it can then better create those other artifacts.