Yacine: the bitter lesson is why smaller models will win — they scale better and parallelize
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-03
In a follow-up to his prediction that smaller models will outperform bigger ones, Yacine cites the bitter lesson: smaller models scale better and are more parallel, aligning with Sutton's thesis that compute-heavy general methods ultimately beat human-knowledge-heavy designs.
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