The bitterest lesson: your production job is their ablation
vedantmisra · x · 2026-09-04
A viral riff on Sutton's Bitter Lesson captures the brutal asymmetry of the AI industry: your production system is a frontier lab's ablation, your SOTA is their unreported run, your ICML oral was their negative result, your Series A funds one hyperparameter sweep, and your flagship model underperforms their unannounced prototype—because scaling compute is all that matters.
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