'Everything's a new algorithm now': dev mocks AI field's terminology inflation
willcb · x · 2026-11-14
Developer willcb mocks the AI field's terminology inflation: score centering, FP4 scaling tricks, RL environments for regional tax law, pretraining on last-gen vibecoded repos, even prompting models to write better docs — all are now branded as "new algorithms." The rate of such rebranding, he jokes, is "getting exponential."
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