On Working with Wizards
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An essay by Ethan Mollick exploring how the nature of working with AI is shifting from collaborative 'co-intelligence' to a 'wizard' model, where AI produces sophisticated outputs through opaque processes that users can only verify, not shape.
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It gives practitioners a sharp mental model for working with frontier models like GPT-5 Pro and Claude Opus — recognizing when you're 'summoning a wizard' whose output you can only verify rather than shape, which changes how you design review and verification workflows.
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