Paul Graham suggests 17-year-olds should build LLMs from scratch

samiramanabi · x · 2026-08-23

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham responded to a question about what he would do if he were 17. He advised learning to build Large Language Models (LLMs) from scratch and training the most powerful models possible using whatever hardware is accessible.

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