Engineer's take: master fundamentals, not 50 temporary API wrappers
TivadarDanka · x · 2026-09-24
An engineering-philosophy tweet: at the end of your career you won't wish you'd memorized 50 temporary API wrappers or chased every viral framework — you'll wish you'd mastered foundational principles. The author argues surface-level understanding can't build extraordinary AI systems.
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