AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by foopod on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:23PM (#50370318)

> LLMs are getting very good at this and surpassing what humans have been able to prove.

But if the reverse were true it would be impossible to prove. AI is trained on all of humanities solutions - LLMs stand on the shoulders of giants, not the other way around.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by gfosco on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:32PM (#50370422)

We do, too, as we have also been trained from the same prior solutions.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by adastra22 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:48PM (#50372560)

As of today, the training data the originates from humans represents a vanishingly small portion of the total training. The vast majority of training - how many 9’s is a trade secret - of a frontier model is synthetic RLVR data. That’s how they got good at this.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by drdeca on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:14AM (#50375481)

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by adastra22 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:47AM (#50380576)

It’s an increasing portion of training month by month. As of this last summer, pretty much all new GPU hardware is going to a combination of inference and post-training model tuning, generally RLVR.

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