"Of course I didn't look at the data — that's not Bitter Lesson pilled"
willcb · x · 2026-10-16
Researcher willcb jokes that never looking at the data is the truly "Bitter Lesson pilled" move. The Bitter Lesson is Rich Sutton's famous thesis that scale and compute beat hand-engineered methods in the long run; the tweet pokes fun at the industry culture of "just scale it, skip the analysis."
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