A.I. Creator or Consumer? (11/17/2025)
I have been hearing for years that you need A.I. skill moving into the future. What skills do they mean?
The only skills I can think of are creating an A.I. model yourself where you have the hardware, CPU, power, and A.I. algorithms to learn from data, find patterns and make proper decisions.
The other skill that I can identify is being a consumer of A.I. where you come up with prompts to find the information using another company's A.I. model.
Prompting might be a big deal as it is the only means to find information from an A.I. model.
If you are in the first group, then the sky is the limit, or the ceiling of the bubble is yours. If you are a consumer, well, you will be just like the rest of us and stuck figuring out the best prompts for information.
I do not know of any other skills that can be derived from A.I. as you either create it or consume it.
I would make a bet that 99% of A.I. users are consumers. They ask questions to get an answer. I have a hard time seeing this as a skill. There is an IT joke where the IT engineer just knows how to use Google better than you when fixing issues. Is prompting A.I. a skill?
How do you know your prompt was used? Did the A.I. model use your prompt, or did it use it to make a better one?
I use OpenAI's API where I use Dall E 3 model to generate images from detailed prompts that I send the model. Does it use my exact prompt? No, it does not.
As a simple example, I sent in this super basic prompt "Create an image of a user who creates an A.I. model versus a user who just consumes A.I."
I have tried several detailed prompts but there is a variable that is returned along with the image URL named 'Revised_Prompt' that was actually used to create the image. It took my prompt and redefined it to: "Depict an interesting contrast between two users interacting with artificial intelligence (A.I.) in different ways. On one side, have a Caucasian female diligently coding on her computer, her screen glowing with complex algorithms showcasing the creation of an A.I. model. On the other side, present an East Asian male user who is causally using an A.I. powered app on his tablet, consuming the outcome of A.I. fabrication, illustrating the user-consumer end of artificial intelligence. The surroundings of the image should be technology-driven without any use of words, text, or typography."
Was the image free of words, text, or typography? No, but why did it revise my prompt?
Was my prompt just too basic? I don't think so but every prompt for an image regardless of details is always changed. Does the same happen when using other models when asking a simple question?
Is prompting A.I. a skill when the A.I. model will change it? This is why I feel there are no skills regarding A.I. consumption, only in model creation. This is when actual skills come into play.
Here are the results of the revised prompt...
