Rich Sutton: the bitter lesson for search is to grep a filesystem, like Google did
willcb · x · 2026-10-24
RL pioneer Rich Sutton argues the bitter lesson for search is simply grepping over a filesystem — the same approach that made Google work. The takeaway for agent tooling: simple, scalable retrieval beats intricate hand-designed heuristics.
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