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Benjamin Todd
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Benjamin Todd's personal blog at benjamintodd.substack.com covers ai and career. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “AI wasn't overhyped. Almost everyone underestimated it”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in AI debates as a counterpoint to people who dismiss AI risk, including a post arguing that AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history. No commenter judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A guide to the AI transition.
Most-linked posts?
- AI wasn't overhyped. Almost everyone underestimated it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-27
What Hacker News says?
> These conspiracy theories are getting ever more elaborate. The liability regime thing was not from some big speech. It was from a Senate subcommittee hearing which did not attract all that much attention: It likely didn't attract much attention, because these sorts of hearings are largely performative. They're not actually a part of the legislative process per se. Again, the only relevant thing is what legislation…
Comment linking /p/almost-every-ai-forecast
on “OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache”Submitted What can you do to personally prepare for AGI? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>They're always discussing harsher liability regimes. The regulatory interventions are always positioned to the public as increasing accountability. These conspiracy theories are getting ever more elaborate. The liability regime thing was not from some big speech. It was from a Senate subcommittee hearing which did not attract all that much attention: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-ai-preference-cascade-reac... >…
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on “OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache”Submitted AI wasn't overhyped. Almost everyone underestimated it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo need. Plenty of hype already. "AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history" https://benjamintodd.substack.com/p/when-people-say-ai-isnt-... It really seems like people will latch on to any theory, no matter how implausible, to reassure themselves that AI is nothing to worry about.
Comment linking /p/when-people-say-ai-isnt-finding-real
on “OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache”Submitted Why US AI "Manhattan Project" could backfire: notes from conversations in China as a story · 2 points
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