Technical View: Large design space limits RL in automating high-level judgment
herbiebradley · x · 2026-08-30
Discussing RL for automating software engineering, the author argues the design space is too large to reliably teach superhuman judgment. While long-horizon RL might implicitly learn code quality, the core issue is defining reliable RL objectives and rubrics, which continual learning doesn't necessarily solve.
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