Dwarkesh: the avalanche that hit math is coming for AI development itself
SinclairWang1 · x · 2026-11-15
Dwarkesh Patel argues 'the avalanche that hit math is coming for AI development' — AI-driven acceleration in math research will soon apply to AI research itself. Reposter Elie Bakouch, who spent months on this topic, broadly agrees and adds a key caveat: second-order interactions in LLM training pipelines (e.g. shrinking KV cache for inference efficiency interacts unpredictably with other pretraining components) could slow open AI research progress. A high-signal essay on how to measure AI progress.
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