Career Strategy in the AI Era: Work on Problems Outside the Training Data
threepointone · x · 2026-08-11
Prominent developer threepointone shared a career strategy for the AI era: choosing to work on problems that aren't in the training dataset and are weakly expressed in the latent space. This implies seeking out niche domains or tasks heavily reliant on unique human experience that AI has not yet mastered, maintaining irreplaceability amidst the wave of automation.
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