LSTMs were flawed, but likely essential to getting modern AI here
bclavie · x · 2026-07-24
The author says they still have a soft spot for LSTMs: in retrospect they were deeply flawed, but the current generation of AI models likely would not exist without them. They describe LSTMs as a beautiful but highly compromised architecture, like a gothic cathedral built from many suboptimal trade-offs.
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