Paras Chopra's 'strategic laziness': delay hard projects until AI can one-shot them
paraschopra · x · 2026-10-23
Paras Chopra coins "strategic laziness": deliberately stalling on difficult projects because a future AI model will likely be able to one-shot them before you'd have finished building them yourself. It's effectively a bet on the pace of AI capability growth — if models keep improving fast, waiting can be the rational allocation of your time.
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