New AI labs will be hit by the Bitter Lesson harder than anyone, dev says
eigenron · x · 2026-10-15
AI practitioner eigenron argues that today's "neolabs" — new labs betting on clever architectures and methods — will be hit by Sutton's Bitter Lesson harder than anyone: approaches leveraging compute and scale eventually beat hand-crafted designs. In a follow-up reply, he clarified the impact will be "in a not good way."
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