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Rachel Thomas Returns to AI at Answer.AI After Leaving in 2023 — and the 174-Comment HN Thread Is Mostly People Arguing With Her Reasons
In an Aug 18 fast.ai post titled 'My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup,' fast.ai co-founder Rachel Thomas explains returning to a field she left in 2023, arguing AI is not monolithic and the frontier-lab vision isn't the only one available. Her stated concerns are unusually concrete for a re-entry post: education products chasing gameable metrics, some outright fraudulent, and skill atrophy in reading and writing from outsourced thinking. She points at SolveIt as the alternative — tooling designed to keep the human in control — and the post drew 53 points against 174 comments, a ratio that signals contested rather than endorsed.
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