Yacine on RL: 'dumb, brute-force' algorithms beat pretentious scaling laws
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-18
AI engineer Yacine shared why he loves RL algorithms: unlike the "pretentious" pretraining scaling "laws", RL is about trying the most idiotically simple thing that would obviously give you a better gradient from the goal — a caveman-engineer approach to making progress.
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