AI researcher: it's a good thing when problems you've worked on for years get solved
rajammanabrolu · x · 2026-09-26
An AI researcher offers a mindset take: even if problems you've worked on for years get solved by someone else, it's a good thing. If your motivation is human progress in general, you can still derive joy from others' solutions—knowing there are nearly infinite problems left to choose from.
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