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Yuchen Jin: AI makes the cost of building personalized software extremely low

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On November 2, 2026, Yuchen Jin responded to Andrej Karpathy's weekend project in which Karpathy used Claude to filter twenty years and 43 million comments on Hacker News, screen out 6,454 videos, and build HackerTube. Yuchen Jin stated that recommendation algorithms such as TikTok's exist only to get people addicted, while AI is making the cost of producing personalized software extremely low. This view was currently posted by Yuchen Jin himself, and there are no other developments or facts yet.

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    Yuchen Jin comments on Karpathy building HackerTube with AI

    Yuchen Jin responds to Andrej Karpathy's weekend project of using Claude to filter 43 million comments from 20 years of HN, selecting 6,454 videos and building HackerTube. He said that recommendation algorithms like TikTok's exist only to get people addicted, while AI is making the cost of building personalized software extremely low.

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