Researcher's decade-long lesson: external feedback derailed my research bets
rajammanabrolu · x · 2026-09-04
AI researcher Raj Ammanabrolu shares his biggest lesson from a decade of research: stop listening to external feedback on research bets. In his experience, outside opinions more often derailed him from working on the right problems than helped.
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