Sutton shares Bitter Lesson country song as Mollick admits his agent-orchestration thesis was wrong
RichardSSutton · x · 2026-10-03
Richard Sutton shared a country-music rendition of The Bitter Lesson from Ethan Mollick's post "The Dot and the Swarm."
Key points:
- Mollick admits he was wrong to think humans would need to manage agent groups like building a company; stronger models brute-force their way past that.
- The Bitter Lesson keeps repeating: elaborate systems feeding AI the right info gave way to models seeking info themselves, and carefully crafted prompt chains proved far less valuable as newer models plan steps on their own.
- The song itself is a demo: one prompt had Fable write lyrics for Suno, while Opus 5.5 produced the rest of the music video purely with code — no image generation, no human feedback.
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