Google Brain saying: you get more compute only after proving you used it well
karinanguyen · x · 2026-11-08
DynamicWebPaige cites an old Google Brain saying—"you get more compute when you've proven that you've used the compute you already have effectively"—noting chip allocation now matters as much as capital allocation. karinanguyen adds a year of AI deployment lessons: the tasks AI performs best per unit of energy aren't always the most economically valuable; the same compute can be worth far more in one business than another, so where you deploy AI matters as much as how good you make it.
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