"There are more inference workloads in Heaven and Earth, Horatio" — a quip on overfit optimization
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-20
charlesirl riffs on Shakespeare: "there are more inference workloads in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your optimizations." The quip pokes fun at how optimization efforts focus on typical benchmark scenarios while real-world inference demands span a long tail that most reasoning stacks never see.
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