Dan Jeffries: Never Regret Learning Anything — Even in the AI Era
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-04
Dan Jeffries pushes back against the 'learning to code is obsolete' anxiety, arguing no one ever regrets learning more.
- Learning's value lies in abstraction, cross-domain association, and combining novel ideas — not in a single use case.
- He cites Siddhartha's 'I can think, I can wait, I can fast': thinking is the core, plus patience and endurance.
- 'Machines can do all that. So what?' The joy is in learning itself, and everything learned becomes a foundation for stronger thinking.
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