tszzl wraps up: efficiency gains only amplify hunger for hardware
tszzl · x · 2026-09-10
Concluding his thread on model quality as compute times algorithm quality, tszzl concedes that better algorithms let you get more from less hardware — but argues this only makes the industry hungrier for hardware, pushing back on the popular claim that algorithmic progress will ease compute demand.
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