There's no playbook for applied AI—start staking your claim by building in public
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-09
A practitioner argues that people tinkering with AI and agents face unprecedented arbitrage opportunities but serious ambiguity. His advice: start with building in public—post your thoughts, screenshots, experiments, and how your POV updates when wrong. In applied AI, the process matters more than the final output, and the field rewards those who wrestle with messy, slightly-too-big problems.
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