The Irony of the Bitter Lesson
rao2z · x · 2026-07-14
The author jokes that the 'Bitter Lesson' has become increasingly bitter after being repeatedly cited in the LLM community: the person who proposed the lesson now believes that current methods are weak and inefficient, requiring a much more radical reset.
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