Yacine: we can now turn any measurable task into a general-purpose solver
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-27
Following up on his "we're absurdly early" take, Yacine offers a big-picture claim: we now have a technique to turn every measurable task into a machine that solves tasks of that shape in a general way — once a metric exists, general-purpose systems can scale to crush it.
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