Hot take: If you haven't trained a model, your opinion on AI doesn't matter
samiramanabi · x · 2026-08-29
Samir Amanabi argues that opinions on AI are irrelevant if one hasn't trained a model. The rationale isn't that training is a prerequisite for having an opinion, but that understanding how things work is necessary to predict where things are going. The same logic is applied to hardware opinions.
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