"Just Existing Techniques?" If So, You Could Have Built It — Nobody Did
ctjlewis · x · 2026-08-11
Pushing back against the common AI critique that "it's not novel, just existing techniques," the author argues: if it were that simple, you could have applied them yourself. Nobody did. Therefore, being the first to actually execute and deliver is what makes it genuinely novel.
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