Developer Yacine: shockingly little of my life progress was blocked by intelligence
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-07
Developer YacineMTB, reacting to The Zvi's Astra thread, remarks he is shocked by how little of his personal progress in everything at life was actually blocked by intelligence.
The implication: execution, habits, and environment are most people's real bottlenecks — a contrast that becomes starker as model capability keeps rising.
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