Gauti Eggertsson responding to this link on how should PhD students think about AI tools. Of course I agree. The best way to not sound like an idiot about AI tools is to put them through the paces.

Good advice. This is a major regime change, you can do things in one evening now, that would take months before. I agree with the notion — even if nobody knows at this point where this goes — that it makes a lot of sense to invest a lot in knowing how to use these tools. Then the biggest bang for the buck will be conceptual ideas, posing useful question, the returns on investing in technicalities, and very specialized solution methods are lower, they are very easily replicated by AI. What you need to know is enough to verify if the answer is correct or not and the answer is replicable.