Prof. Dietterich: Scaling Wasn't All You Needed — Data, RLVR and Harnesses Mattered
tdietterich · x · 2026-09-27
- Noted researcher Thomas Dietterich pushes back on the "Scaling is all you need" narrative from LLM advocates.
- He argues progress also required better data, RLVR, optimized prompts, clever harnesses, and presumably much unpublished work.
- A notable academic critique of pure-scaling claims.
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