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How I keep up with AI progress

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263 points itzlambda | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 18:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jameslk ◴[18 Jul 25 19:27 UTC] No.44608826[source]▶
Maybe I’ve been missing some important stuff, but it seems the most relevant and important updates eventually just bubble up to the front page of HN or get mentioned in the comments
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SoftTalker ◴[18 Jul 25 19:31 UTC] No.44608867[source]▶
Trying to keep up is like jumping on a 90mph treadmill. I have decided to opt out. I think AI (and currently LLMs) is more than a fad and not going away but it's in a huge state of churn right now. I'm not investing a ton of time into anything until I have to. In another few years the landscape will hopefully be more clear. Or not, but at least I won't have spent a lot of time on stuff that has quickly become irrelevant.

I'm currently not using AI or LLMs in any of my day-to-day work.

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1. chasd00 ◴[18 Jul 25 20:56 UTC] No.44609741[source]▶
i'm in the same boat, i did the zero-to-hero series karpathy put out to get a basic understanding of what we're dealing with. At work, I helped put together a basic rag setup last year that's in production so feel ok with implementation. Finally, i have a little personal pet project that i'm going to feel out with claude code over Christmas to get more hands on. That's about it all i'm going to do to "keep up". I'll let the fighters fight it out and then just use whatever wins.

btw here's a link to the karpathy videos https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

edit: i use claude and chatgpt day to day to help with simple things like regex, a replacement for google search in same cases, and self contained classes, functions, and other small discreet blocks of code.