KOL Yang Yi: I Tried to Copy My Knowledge Into AI and Realized I Can't Explain It Myself
yangyi · x · 2026-10-16
Yang Yi (@yangyi), replying to @lxfater, says he recently tried to "copy" his own knowledge into an AI — only to find he can't articulate how he actually does things. His workflow boils down to "roll the dice, dislike the result, tweak, roll again," repeated until he breaks down. He asks whether there's a systematic way to mind-dump his knowledge, relying on intuition.
It captures a real pain point in the AI community: externalizing tacit expertise well enough to feed a model is itself hard.
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