Applied AI trend: self-taught misfits are lapping those who need the world to fit a mold
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-14
An applied AI trend the author keeps seeing: people who never fit in a box, thought differently, and learned to figure things out on their own are now running circles around those who needed the world to look a certain way before they could act.
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