Yacine: posttraining is just the rich man's inference
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-07
AI developer Yacine quipped that "posttraining is just the rich man's inference" — implying training and inference are fundamentally the same compute-for-capability trade, differing only in budget. Fits his broader point that inference and post-training compute converge at the limit.
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