The 10,000-hour rule for applied AI: roughly 1 trillion tokens of practice
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-18
brandongalang offers an analogy: 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in applied AI translates to roughly 1 trillion tokens. Don't tokenmaxx for nothing, he says, but you have to let the tokens flow — heavy hands-on usage is how you build applied AI skill.
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