Yacine resurfaces his own maxim: you can outsource thinking, not understanding
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-23
Yacine MTB quoted his own earlier line — "you can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding" — marveling at how right it turned out. The aphorism captures a widely shared feeling about working with AI: delegation is easy, genuine comprehension isn't transferable.
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