'Bitter lesson for robotics' gets a sharp rebuttal: it's still human-orchestrated end to end
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-10
A viral long post pushes back on the claim that "the bitter lesson comes for robotics": the so-called learning-driven progress still rests on hand-designed architectures, every component and hyperparameter painstakingly ablated against human-chosen metrics, initialization from digitized human knowledge, extended distillation phases, and relentless hill-climbing in millions of partly crowd-sourced, partly prompt-generated environments humans decided were worth optimizing — all inside a human-orchestrated quarterly cycle of intelligence creation.
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