Clean abstractions: human craftsmanship or RL giving us implicit world models?
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-26
Seeing well-abstracted code, the author wonders whether this reflects humans being 'chads' at creating useful abstractions, or whether RL training has effectively given models a pseudo-explicit world model—an open observation about internal world representations in code generation.
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