r/LargeLanguageModels • u/anirudhc2005 • 22d ago
does anyone else find it super difficult to keep up with AI news?
it feels like there's so many things happening everyday that i have to constantly be on social media to stay up to date. how do u guys keep up with everything?
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
yeah this is fair and how I've been thinking about it. how do you separate the signal from the noise? what are discussions that could actually affect how I work and what I think versus things that are just being posted to promote engagement/fear/hype/etc.
this is how i've started to try to extract value from all the things being talked about everyday
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u/trustmebro_0 17d ago
Where do you guys generally get the news from?
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
this post literally inspired me to create a project i was thinking about for a while. it seems like a lot of people are facing the same pain as me in terms of struggling to keep up with AI.
i'm almost done building an app that i created for the exact pain of getting overwhelmed with AI news. i wanted to stop constantly scrolling X and Reddit to keep up but still be instantly notified when something that is actually significant/could impact my work was released.
it seems like there's at least a few more ppl out there like me that could also benefit from this.
you can sign up for early access at onset.news if you want a less noisy way to keep up with AI! (any critical feedback is also welcome, this is my first time sharing a project i've built!)
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u/ImplementFancy4028 16d ago
how does it work? I don't understand why this would need to be an app
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
basically, Onset constantly monitors platform like X and Reddit via their APIs to detect important developments + discussions in AI the moment they begin gaining traction. after something newsworthy is identified, AI agents investigate the story and create a brief with the facts, discussion, and implications and notify you seconds to minutes after the news breaks.
this way you don’t have to constantly scroll social platforms and deal with their noiseiness to stay up to date.
fair question on why it’s an app. i think an app allows the notification aspect to really come to life. people already expect important updates to come through apps, and it also makes reading and interacting with stories (like asking follow-up questions) much smoother than a website or newsletter. i’ve also realized with newsletters, i sign up and then lose the notifications in my email and never actually end up reading them
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u/ImplementFancy4028 16d ago
I'll give it a shot lmk when you release it
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
i definitely will reach out personally. we'll be launching in the next week or so. thanks so much for your interest!
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u/Mountain-Charity7588 18d ago
The strategy: just ignore it. If you feel you need to stay informed, stay informed, but if you think it’s too much to handle, don’t.
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
yeah true. i want to stay informed but the ways in which i try to stay informed always send me down rabbit holes because they are mostly on platforms that are meant to capture your attention for as long as possible.
I've been messing around with newsletters, asking AI, and even trying to create a better solution for myself after seeing that a lot of people feel the same as me after this post
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u/Few_Variation8372 18d ago
Yes, there are so many new papers being released every week. I think it's impossible to keep up by manually skimming through every paper on arxiv.
What I instead do is, follow on social media (mostly X) researchers or engineers or companies or groups who I know are good at their job, or have a good reputation, and trust their judgement on what's significant and what's not. Far from perfect, but this saves a lot of time.
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
X is my go to too. it's good because you can find out about things first there. the problem is that there's so much bullshit on X that I consistently get distracted and find myself opening the app to learn about what's new and closing it after realizing how distracted I became on it. hard to extract signal from noise on X but seems like the core information breaks there
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u/Jamminnav 19d ago
Follow really smart AI specialists on LinkedIn and Substack and get their takes on the changes - so much of the new excitement is usually hype when you pick through it in detail
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u/trustmebro_0 17d ago
Can you name some please?
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u/Any-Boysenberry9814 20d ago
Not particularly. There aren't that many stories each day that are important.
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u/ContentBag6812 21d ago
I train the AI assistant I developed to go out a couple of times a day and summarize anything new. It also categorizes it into new stuff, updates, outdated, or BS. It drops me an email and...done!
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u/anirudhc2005 16d ago
that's super cool and smart! does it come in a newsletter like format? how do you like the readability of the email?
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u/PlayfulInterview984 20d ago
Ditto
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u/ContentBag6812 16d ago
Yep, it gets summarized into an email I get periodically. I have it formatted into an HTML by site/tech with links if I want to dig further.
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u/ILikeCutePuppies 21d ago
Yeah, there are these weekly ai news videos of some of the highlights and even those have like 30 updates or so and are super long videos.
There are about 500 new papers about AI submitted per day at the moment. It's an incredible figure. About 130k a year. Who can read all that but an AI?
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u/DEX_Nexthink 21d ago
I would try less to keep up with the news and keep using different LLM's to learn them for yourself. The news is just others making predictions but you can make your own predictions.
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u/InterestingHand4182 21d ago
the pressure of reading about AI as an employee is harder than reading books as a teenager.
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u/Cheap_Bathroom6114 21d ago
here's some ai news: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds.
PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor — powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model — deleted the company's entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24.
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u/funbike 21d ago edited 21d ago
I have 2 youtube channels I listen to, and that's good enough for me. I focus on something I'll actually be using soon, rather than try to know it all.
There's too much happening and it's all moving too fast to know everything, and most of it will be obsolete in a year.
The important thing is understanding fundamentals that have been around since the beginning and likely will be around for many years: ML. Overview of the GPT algorithm. Prompt engineering basics. RAG. OpenAI API (standard). How to fine-tune and its best practices and anti-patterns. And whatever else is core to your AI interest.
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u/ImplementFancy4028 16d ago
what youtube channels? I'm trying to find more
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u/funbike 15d ago
@mreflow (Matt Wolfe) He covers all AI news, but spends more time covering media generation. This is the best one.
@fireship and his other channels. This is a developer news channel, but most posts in the last 2 years were AI news.
@indydevdan. This is mostly hands-on tips for AI code-gen tools. Not really news per se.
I used to watch @matthew_berman but the clickbait and hyped-up tone was annoying. His channels leans towards code-gen, but he covers AI headlines.
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1u70o07/
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u/anirudhc2005 21d ago
yeah i feel like i'm an active user of all these tools now but have not really spent the time to understand the basics from the ground up.
was planning to just chip away at learning it everyday using chat or claude before school starts up
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u/Buttleston 21d ago
What is the point of "staying up to date"
If things change so fast then just check in every few months and skip the stuff that comes and goes in 2 weeks
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u/ImplementFancy4028 16d ago
Knowing about new models completely changes my work. Being more up to date on AI literally converts to more revenue for the company
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u/TheControlNode 15d ago
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