Stop chasing AI frameworks: dev says spend 6 months on the math instead
TivadarDanka · x · 2026-10-13
Tivadar Danka argues most developers spend 20 hours a week learning frameworks that will be obsolete in 18 months. His alternative: spend 6 months mastering the core math behind ML — linear algebra, calculus, and probability. Frameworks die yearly; the math underneath stays true for 50 years.
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