Yoav Goldberg: Buckmaster sees AI agents as simply a way to scale test-time compute
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-26
Yoav Goldberg notes that Tristan Buckmaster's view of 'AI agents' is essentially a device for scaling up LLMs by running many instances in parallel — for math at least, it's all about scaling test-time compute rather than fancy orchestration.
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