Good Will Hunting parody skewers SF MTS engineers' ever-shifting AI beliefs
broodsugar · x · 2026-09-08
A viral parody reworking the Good Will Hunting bar scene takes aim at the AI industry's rapidly rotating orthodoxies: a first-year San Francisco MTS cites Jared Kaplan's scaling laws to insist data and compute are the only constraints, then pivots next month to an Alex Karp-style thesis that open-source drives intelligence cost to zero and the real value lies in RL on proprietary company workflows — "the model is a commodity, the business is the training environment, and you're an organizational theorist."
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