Bitter Lesson Strikes Again: Astra Drives Cars With Zero Domain Training
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-24
Results from DrivingBench show that Astra can complete driving tasks without any specialist training in the domain. Each model gets 3 attempts within the same continuous chat, relying purely on in-context learning. The poster quips that "the bitter lesson keeps getting more bitter" — general-purpose models are once again beating domain-specialized approaches.
Related event: GPT-6 Astra Drives a Real Car via openpilot, Claude and Grok Fail(6 posts)→
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