Yacine on DeepSeek: they did the obviously better thing, and it shows
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-11
Replying to his own thread on first-principles thinking, Yacine remarks that every DeepSeek release feels like "we did the thing that would obviously be better," to which his reaction is "yeah, obviously" — reinforcing his point that many lab approaches are less sensible than they seem.
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