Paul Graham's advice for CS grads: build LLMs or get close to customers
garrytan · x · 2026-09-23
Garry Tan retweets Paul Graham's answer to a CS undergrad asking where to have the most impact in the AI age. PG says it's probably at either extreme: work close to the technology and actually build LLMs, or stay close to the customer and use AI to give them exactly what they want — or both, if you can stretch that far.
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