Feeling left behind by AI? An 18-year-old asks how to catch up
An 18-year-old who only used free chatbot tiers and stopped following AI news in 2024 asks how to catch up on two years of model releases. The core skill has not changed: knowing what to ask and checking the answer. The big shifts since 2024 are agents that do multi-step work and models with much longer memory, and the fastest way back is using one tool daily for real tasks for a month rather than reading a hundred update posts.