François Chollet: Breakthroughs belong to those obsessed with the process, not the outcome
fchollet · x · 2026-10-15
Keras creator François Chollet posted a reflection on what it takes to solve hard problems: everyone wants to have solved one, but almost nobody wants to live inside the grind of actually solving it. Breakthroughs, he argues, belong to the few obsessed with the process itself rather than the idea of the outcome.
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