3 Types of Thinking and Why Software Engineers Are Still Superior to AI

AI can’t replace you if your smarter. Lean into your innate human abilities to stay ahead.

Here are 3 types of thinking and how you can use AI to help you outsmart it.

Critical Thinking

What: Consider all information available and evaluate the path forward.

How Humans Are Better: We can understand nuance and moral implications better. We have a more diverse set of experiences than just reading the internet to learn.

How AI Can Help: Use AI to help summarize large pieces of text to add to your context. Ask AI what questions you should investigate further in a given a situation.

Creative Thinking

What: Creating something new, something that hasn’t been done before.

How Humans Are Better: We have emotions and personal experiences to draw inspiration from. Our brains can connect ideas from different domains in new ways.

How AI Can Help: Use AI to help you brainstorm. Prompt it for idea lists over and over until you find pieces that resonate. Then go deeper on those asking for variations until you find something that works.

Analytical Thinking

What: Breaking down big problems into smaller parts.

How Humans Are Better: We have specialized knowledge that lets us distinguish between the different components of a big problem. We also have additional context to help understand the details of what the smaller parts should look like.

How AI Can Help: After you break the problem down, use AI to help organize or identify patterns in your solution. If you break the problem down small enough, AI can even implement it for you.

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