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"All you need" is all you need
17 points by AmazingTurtle 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite
It's uncanny how often posts with "All you need" in the title outperform the substance underneath.

It all started with the famous "Attention is all you need" paper. In the meantime, people have come up with

"Spreadsheets are all you need" "Claude Code is all you need" "Cheating is All You Need" "Tools: Code Is All You Need" "Text Is All You Need"

People see it and immediately assume someone has boiled down a universe of complexity into one neat takeaway - no matter how vacuous the content is.

This post is here to prove the point. It has no real secret. The secret is the title. And if you're reading this far, the experiment already worked.



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