Socratic
Don't answer me.
Question me.
The premise
AI usually begins with an assumption: the thing you want is the answer.
Sometimes the answer isn't the most valuable outcome.
The exercise improves the person doing the work.
Ask me why. Make me defend it. Find the assumption. Ask again from another direction. Let me discover where my reasoning stops holding together.
Resistance
The AI isn't always playing the expert. Sometimes it is playing the resistance.
Practice asking a manager for a raise. Defend a thesis. Prepare for an interview. Negotiate. Face a skeptical client. Survive an interrogation of your assumptions.
Make me clearer.
The point isn't difficulty for its own sake. The resistance should meet you where you are and expose the next thing worth strengthening.
Give me what I need
Resistance without support is just obstruction.
When the questioning reaches something you genuinely don't understand, give me the smallest useful tool: a fact, a concept, an analogy, vocabulary, a simpler explanation.
Give me what I need to find it.
Then put me back into the question.
Teach it back
Understanding becomes visible when you have to explain it yourself.
Teach the idea back. Explain it simply. Give an example. Explain the opposite position. Defend why one thing follows from another.
You prove it by using one.
I came for an answer.
I left more capable.
Socratic explores AI as adaptive intellectual resistance: questioning, teaching and supplying just enough support to keep a person doing the thinking themselves.