A slowdown may accelerate AI progress by forcing more reflection
mike64_t · x · 2026-07-26
The author argues that a more principled planner can eventually overtake a greedy rusher.
In the quoted post, Will Depue recalls a day when the OpenAI cluster was down: because nobody could code, people spent the time thinking about experiments, reading papers, talking, and taking notes. He says that a global slowdown might actually accelerate progress by forcing more reflection and idea generation.
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