Sarah Hooker amplifies 'slow death of scaling': data pipelines now beat algorithmic novelty
rbhar90 · x · 2026-09-11
Sarah Hooker shares 'On the slow death of scaling,' citing the view that the research era of post-training ended months ago: marginal returns from engineering data and environment pipelines now substantially exceed those of algorithmic novelty. Scale AI co-founder rbhar90's retweet signals buy-in from frontier practitioners.
Related event: Debate Rages Over 'Slow Death of Scaling' and Post-Training's End(2 posts)→
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