Ethan Mollick turns Sutton's Bitter Lesson into a country-western music video
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-04
Ethan Mollick uploaded the Bitter Lesson video from his piece to YouTube after viewer requests, adapting Rich Sutton's famous AI essay as a country-western song. Professor Afinetheorem called it the best version yet, saying the Bitter Lesson is one of the few readings he gives all students to understand the AI world — and that if you know the essay, you know why it had to be country-western.
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