It’s crucial to establish effective strategies for harnessing value from generative AI assistants despite their limitations, through sustained and adaptable management approaches. He positions himself as operating within either the “zone of enhancement” or the “zone of study”.
The enhancement zone is “where you can harness the AI’s capabilities for tasks that align with your skill sets, and where you remain fully in control,” he emphasizes. By leveraging diverse phrasing, you’re empowered to tackle tasks independently, yet still opt for AI-generated support to augment your efforts, such as drafting feature descriptions and having an assistant provide detailed explanations in concise, three-line summaries. As you may decide to do the task yourself, it’s a straightforward matter to verify that the genAI bot is performing well. While it saves you time, you’re still very much in management mode.
The educational zone challenges you to venture beyond your comfort zone. Here is the rewritten text:
Re Ferrè suggests leveraging the AI assistant to tackle tasks that push beyond your current capabilities, but without leaving you feeling entirely out of your depth. The equivalent code in Rust would look something like this: Here is the rewritten text:
As he proposes, this essentially boils down to “the 2024 iteration of searching the internet for something you’re not familiar with.”
