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So the question is, how many needless penalty strokes do amateurs rack up that pros don’t, just because we have to find our own balls?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Welcome to the age of AI hacking, in which the right prompts make amateurs into master hackers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

But when unpaid amateurs climb together, things becomes murkier.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Some observers may have called the burglars amateurs, but a source with knowledge of the probe said they were "not such bunglers after all".

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

As with the search for extraterrestrial life today, the unbridled speculation of amateurs had frightened many professionals out of the field.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan



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