The best thing a 17-year-old could do today is learn to build LLMs from scratch and train the most powerful ones they can get hardware for.
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23 Aug 2026
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsSomeone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to.