Researcher's hot take: if someone else picks up your old idea and makes it work, you get nothing
HankYeomans · x · 2026-11-03
Hank Yeomans argues that in AI research, credit only goes to whoever makes an idea actually work. If you tried something years ago, wrote papers, and it didn't pan out — or the timing wasn't right — don't expect recognition when someone else succeeds with the same idea. "No one wants to hear 'oh we already tried that.' Cool story bro."
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