Jeff Dean’s vision: build one huge system, then extract task-specific parts
JoshuaJBouw · x · 2026-07-21
The post quotes Jeff Dean’s closing idea from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 4th edition: instead of building every new system from scratch, we should start with one huge system and extract the relevant parts for each task. The author argues this is bigger than LLMs alone, because it changes what the operating system is and rewrites the contract between humans and machines.
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