People who can use AI to do complex things are not just “smart.” What makes the difference is the “map in their head” and the depth of their thinking
4月 24, 2026菅原隆志33 min read
記事を共有するアクション
有料100円税込
People who use AI will continue to increase. Already, many people are using AI to write articles, generate images, and come up with simple ideas.
But in reality, a fairly large gap is emerging.
Some people stop at making simple images with AI or producing a short piece of writing. Meanwhile, others use AI and AI agents to build fairly complex systems, redesign large-scale websites, produce advanced specialized articles, and accomplish one difficult task after another that would have been hard to do alone before.
Where on earth does this difference come from?
To dismiss it simply as “because they’re smart” is only half right. Of course, there are differences in cognitive ability. Speed of understanding, the ability to abstract, reasoning power, and grasping structure. These things are certainly relevant. But that is not the whole story.
What really matters is,how mucha rich “map”they havein their head,
and how much they can expand, deepen, and drill down into the details of that map through thinking. People who can use AI to do complex things are not simply people with a lot of knowledge. They are not merely quick-witted either.They are people who keep thinking. They are people who do not stop thinking, who do not end at the surface, who go into the details, see relationships, grasp structure, fill in gaps, and keep expanding the map.
That is why, in the AI era, the people who are truly strong are not just those who touch AI, butthose who can use AI effectively through thinking.What I have actually experienced with AI
I strongly feel this not just as a theory, but from real experience.
For example, taking an old website and making it new.
Conversation
Be the First Voice
この場所に、最初の感想や気づきをそっと残せます。