RLVR's easy wins are vanishing fast — next frontier is scaling tasks that need taste to judge
marktenenholtz · x · 2026-10-11
Mark Tenenholtz argues that while the usual RLVR domains aren't tapped out, the easy wins are disappearing quickly as larger-scale RL runs proceed. The next frontier, he says, is figuring out how to reliably scale tasks that require more "taste" to judge — i.e. building verifiable-style reward signals for capabilities that lack objective evaluation criteria.
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