'Everything's a New Algorithm Now': Devs Mock Algorithm Naming Inflation in AI
rdesh26 · x · 2026-11-15
A popular X thread mocks how everything in AI gets branded as a "new algorithm" these days: score centering, FP4 scaling tricks, RL environments for regional tax law, pretraining on last-gen vibecoded repos, prompting models to write better docs. The punchline: the number of new algorithms is directly proportional to funding raised — and it's growing exponentially, a pointed jab at repackaging-as-innovation in AI research marketing.
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