VIGA thread: exhaust LLMs first; paper cycles lag behind models
The VIGA thread argues researchers should exhaust existing LLMs and analyze their failures before proposing new methods, with insights that survive the next model generation. Black also notes the 2-year publication cycle means papers may rest on knowledge already obsolete, as LLMs overtake traditional problems mid-publication.
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