How will we ask AGI?

Today, when you prompt a model, you write a paragraph of hedging: do this, not that, in this format, and please don't invent the numbers. Once the system genuinely understands the business, you say less. "Close the quarter" is three words, and each one carries dozens of choices you never have to spell out. In the extreme version, you give the system two words and a shrug, and it fills in the rest. That only works when something substantial sits behind the shrug. The system needs enough context to fill in what you left unsaid. When you shorten a request that far, you rely on the listener already knowing what you would have said. They have built that knowledge from the last eighteen months of your decisions, your rejected drafts, the customer you told them never to call on a Friday. You ask cheaply because someone has spent those eighteen months writing the decisions down and keeping them current. You see the same shift in how you write requirements. Engineers spent forty years learning…