Engineer AI to Stumble Into 100 Ideas: The Bitter Lesson in Practice
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-27
The author describes deliberately engineering AI (Astra) to stumble into 100 candidate ideas and try them all when tackling novel problems, e.g. in language work — evidence that Rich Sutton's Bitter Lesson holds: elegantly brute-forcing beats clever design, and scaling this further is possible with Jev-type models.
Related event: Practitioner's method: getting AI to generate 100 candidate ideas at once(2 posts)→
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