Or perhaps held down beneath their feet? At this point, an honest retrospective is in order.
Is there anything truly novel?
The rise of modern AI has made it effortless to scan the sum of human knowledge, and in doing so, it frequently delivers a bruising blow to the ego.
Quite a many times during the writing of this book, a ”profound breakthrough” derived late at night turned out to have been discovered, cataloged, and named by someone else decades ago.