Yacine: publish an RL environment for your task and models will overfit to it
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-03
Yacine offers a punchy engineering take: everything is an RL environment. If you want a model to do your specific task well, publish an RL environment for it — training will effectively overfit to your task. In effect, task owners can shape model capabilities by becoming environment providers themselves.
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