The most bitter lesson: your flagship job is their ablation

vedantmisra · x · 2026-09-04

A viral riff on Sutton's Bitter Lesson: your flagship work is someone's ablation, your startup is their weekend eval, your ICML oral was their negative result, and your Series A only covers one hyperparameter sweep.

The punchline: scaling computation is all that matters.

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