Why is there no pretrain-postrain co-design? Companies ship their org charts
SonglinYang4 · x · 2026-11-12
Researcher alexwang asks why there's so little pretrain-postrain co-design in frontier labs. SonglinYang calls it a billion-dollar question that's harder than it looks, offering a Conway's Law-style answer: "companies really do ship their org charts" — training pipeline silos mirror organizational structure.
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