RSI is on the table if compute is big enough or great ideas are common
jeremiecharris · x · 2026-10-14
Harris lays out conditions for RSI: a big enough compute budget, or AI ideas good enough and common enough that automated testing can find them. If great AI ideas are rare, testing a million candidates per gem becomes compute-prohibitive.
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