Researcher: Agents Are Compounding Gains by Accelerating Scaling-Law Discoveries
_arohan_ · x · 2026-11-10
A practitioner's take: in the current paradigm, the biggest gains come from stacking discoveries that improve scaling-law exponents. Finding such discoveries used to be the domain of individual researcher fiefdoms — but agents are now accelerating that search, producing compounding gains.
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