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Ask HN: How do you keep on top of all of the AI tools and new changes?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep on top of all of the AI tools and new changes?

#11
I treat it like any other tech thing.

I have a toolbelt as an engineer. These are tools.

When I need the right tool for the job and it’s not on my toolbelt, I add it by ramping up quickly and figuring it out. There are enough tools on the belt to craft this new tool.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep on top of all of the AI tools and new changes?

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post #6

I don't (keep up with tech/culture/sports) and never did. When I was young, I had the illusion that I was or could. You can miss out on opportunities. If it never was an opportunity, you didn't miss out. Experts have forefront opportunities in their respective fields. Non-experts are on the back of the wave and don't. Or to put it another way, when you read the latest paper you are a year or more behind the people wh…

I agree. Reminds of the explosion in JS frontend frameworks. Or databases. Or big data technologies. Or cloud primitives.

It's weird that has leaked into tooling. Through the other fads you could fad away with your 20 year old comfortable tools.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep on top of all of the AI tools and new changes?

#15
post #3

I literally have a ChatGPT task that sends me a daily brief on new tools, GitHub repositories, and MCP servers that are worth checking out, along with how they can affect my current ai usage (seen here: https://chatgpt.com/share/e/682ddc21-5924-8002-aec1-24c0315a... ). I have another one that returns latest AI research updates, but it is less helpful. I need to reengineer that request some. https://chatgpt.com/share/…

Does it work well? Tried to check but link says “shared conversation does not exist” iOS ChatGPT app

I tested this for my local team updates and it was abysmal. 6 month old news etc.
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