Your Indispensable Value in the AI Era

"In a world where the cost of answers is dropping to zero, the value of the question becomes everything." — Brit Cruise, the AI Paradox LLMs and their adjacent AI tools have provided us with something truly novel: the ability to ask anything, at any time, and receive an answer. We might have thought Google was playing this role, until these tools showed us that what we had before was a ubiquitous digital encyclopedia, and what we have now resembles a librarian who will attempt to answer any question, regardless of the complexity or the absurdity. When you have a tool that has all the answers, what value do you have to bring? It turns out: a whole lot. More than you probably thought, too. The Question is the Value If I were asked by someone to describe what it's like be a developer (or programmer, or coder, whatever you identify with), I would describe it as a state of being in which one is ceaselessly asking questions: Why doesn't this work? Why does this work? Is there a better way to