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Ask HN: How do you stay on top of AI tech?
IT has always been a fast-moving field, but the current AI craze seems to produce new tech/results/apps across the whole stack at an ever-increasing pace.
What are some of your strategies to stay in the loop?
- chistev 1y agoVisiting here daily.
- MisterTea 1y agoPretty much this. Once a day glance and I guarantee you there are at least three or four LLM/AI/whatever stories on the front page.
- billconan 1y agoI also don't have a good idea. but I'm building a tool for myself to track papers/reading lists https://youtu.be/uU_WeER2PSs https://youtu.be/uU_WeER2PSs
- vFunct 1y agoYouTube.
- bix6 1y agoFrom the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44559627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44559627
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoI don't. Let's say that AI is useful, and is improving rather rapidly. And let's say that I only look around every six months. So my AI tools are somewhere between current and six months old at any time. If AI is actually useful, I miss out on some productivity. But I also miss out on six months of trying to keep up, which is a huge productivity gain. So on net, am I ahead or behind?
- Sevii 1y agoI have Simon Willison's blog in my RSS feed. https://simonwillison.net https://simonwillison.net
- runjake 1y ago+1 Pretty much the best source for tech laypeople. How do I stay on top of AI tech? I let other people (like simonw) do most of the leg work for me.
- e1g 1y agoYes, that, and AI Explained [1] on YouTube - no BS hype, strong yet approachable analysis, and an in-depth private community if you want a deeper dive. https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official
- mindfulhacker 1y agothanks for sharing - subscribed!
- mavilia 1y agoFor AI news in general I just browse HN. For useful tools I basically wait until something starts appearing in multiple places like HN comments, YouTube tech videos/comments, or on Reddit. This is what led to me hearing about Claude Code and trying it out before convincing other engineers at my company to try it. Now we're considering it over Cursor not so much because of Cursor pricing change but just because Claude Code is doing so much better. That then leads me to an even more specific topic which is how I stay on top of info about the tools I'm using and for that I tend to stick to subreddits i.e. /r/ClaudeAI Some YouTube sources would be any of the "tech-influencers" like ThePrimeagen[0], Internet of Bugs[1], or dare I say Fireship[2] 0 - https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen 1 - https://www.youtube.com/@InternetOfBugs https://www.youtube.com/@InternetOfBugs 2 - https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship
- muzani 1y agoHN is one of the worse places to keep up with it. It gets buried fast due to the comment vs upvote ratio. Just about every other social media is better - reddit, LinkedIn, FB groups, X, YouTube, TikTok, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram. In terms of the technology adoption curve, HN is in Early Majority. Show HN is a notch ahead, and that might be the place to watch.
- paulcole 1y ago> For AI news in general I just browse HN. Like asking whalers for their opinion on electricity.
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- moomoo11 1y agoWhat do you mean by stay on top of it? I’m more on the applied/practical side, not really qualified nor interested in the theoretical side (I’m not a AI PhD). Beyond a high level understanding of how these tools work, there’s not much for me in this arena. As such I just read articles here or in my everyday workflow I’ll see some new thing AWS added and try it out, and so on. Or if I’m facing a problem that requires some tools to solve, I see what’s out there to fill my toolbox. Otherwise it is just a ton of noise and most of it is not relevant to me.
- bjourne 1y agohttps://huggingface.co/papers/date/2025-07-15 https://huggingface.co/papers/date/2025-07-15
- kazinator 1y agoIt's hardly gone anywhere in about two years. Everything being hyped now by excited n00bs trying it for the first time was doable in 2023. There has been more integration of it into this and that, mainly, which is a parlor trick.
- MrCoffee7 1y agosubscribing to AI News https://news.smol.ai/ https://news.smol.ai/
- ActorNightly 1y agoThere is really no AI tech. Any of the agent stuff is just prompt engineering which you can do yourself. VS Code + Continue does as well as any LLM focused IDE. The only thing I really pay attention to is stuff like Gemma QAT, where companies train smaller models with quantized aware training that gives them really good performance.
- MrCoffee7 1y agohttps://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/ https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-...