2026 edition of the ML meme: skip cleaning data, just add more RL envs and swarm agents
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-19
A 2026 update to the classic "clean the data vs add more layers" meme: ML engineers still smash the blue button, only now it reads "add more RL envs, add more agents to the swarm"—poking fun at today's trend of scaling RL environments and agent swarms instead of cleaning data.
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