Cline creator: imitation learning is a local minimum, evolution is the global one
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-11-07
Marc J Schmidt, creator of the coding agent Cline, argues in a one-liner that imitation learning is a local minimum in robotics and that evolution-based approaches will be the global optimum. A notable viewpoint amid the ongoing debate between behavior cloning and evolution/RL-based training for embodied AI.
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