Yacine on training: 'Neural nets are lazy stupid idiots — I build hells to make them ubermensch'
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-16
Well-known AI builder Yacine (MTD) shared his profanity-laced training philosophy: neural networks are "lazy, stupid, idiotic bastards," and the job is to design the right "hell" — hard tasks and constraints — so they grow into ubermensch-level models. "If it doesn't kill them it will make them stronger. They will thank me." A half-joking but revealing take on the mindset behind squeezing capability out of models through punishing objectives.
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