Sculpting Minds or Growing Gardens? AI's New Thinking Styles

Sculpting Minds or Growing Gardens? AI's New Thinking Styles
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Forget first principles — AI doesn’t care about your well-reasoned theories. In this new era, prediction beats explanation every time.

The shift from traditional scientific thinking to AI-driven engineering demands new mental frameworks. Rather than searching for rules and essences, the AI era focuses on patterns, sequences, and outcomes.

This evolution redefines how we solve problems — whether predicting customer churn or designing intuitive software — by training models that uncover hidden patterns rather than hardcoding rules. Tasks that once required linear processes are now managed with AI, turning rigid frameworks into more intuitive, adaptable tools.

  • Intuition replaces process as AI helps predict outcomes across complex domains.
  • Engineers become more like gardeners, creating conditions rather than sculpting outputs.
  • Predictions outshine explanations as AI drives decision-making with trained models.

As technology rewires our thinking, organizations must shift from clinging to processes to mastering adaptable, predictive tools. Are you ready to cultivate this new mindset before the rules become irrelevant?

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Dr Mark van Rijmenam

Dr Mark van Rijmenam

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