Every researcher says don't quantize the LM head to 4 bits—an AI scientist did it anyway and it worked
altryne · x · 2026-10-26
Human AI researchers universally warn never to quantize the LM head to 4 bits. @RecursiveSI's Eureka Machine—an autonomous AI scientist—tried anyway, and it worked; it's part of why the Flint model runs so fast on a Mac. Link to Tim Shi on letting an AI scientist pick the architecture.
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