Ask HN: What is your strategy for staying up-to-date with AI developments?

1 erkanerol 0 7/7/2025, 2:26:10 PM

As a software developer, I'm finding it a bit challenging to stay up-to-date. My personal time outside of work is quite limited due to my new baby, and yet I see numerous developments happening every day. My position is mostly focused on backend and infrastructure. While I use LLMs and tools like Cursor for coding, I don't actively develop agents or similar technologies in my full-time role. I don't have a strong grasp of the core concepts, problems, and common solutions in this space.

To remain competitive in the job market in the coming years, I need to define a strategy, do some learning, and get some hands-on practice. However, I'm not exactly sure where to start. There's just too much noise.

What is your strategy for this? How do you stay current?

p.s. This can be a good startup idea. If I had time, I would start "Daily AI: Learn with baby steps". I checked so many similar websites but all of them are so high-level or too deep. I need a course for developers. Not only videos, but also hands-on tasks. Not too complex that takes hours but doable in ~25 minutes.

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Ask HN: What is your strategy for staying up-to-date with AI developments?

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