AI Labs Hire Experts to Build RL Environments Instead of Automating Jobs Directly
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-21
The post discusses a strategy where AI labs hire domain experts at high rates to formalize their knowledge into Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments rather than automating the jobs directly. The author argues that the narrative claiming AI can't automate jobs due to "tacit knowledge" is a cope; labs effectively bypass this by having experts build environments that encode this secret process knowledge.
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