AI Crash Course ðŸ§
There's a shocking fact about AI: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks.
Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.
But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.
So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.
Here’s what I learned:
You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.
It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplica…
