Re:Microsoft Researcher John Langford Exits. AI Frontiers Gr...
by throwaway89864 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:14PM
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It is notable that with the advancements of 24/7 coding agents with basic research capabilities the premise:
> a clever idea pursued by one person it was likely to arrive late and unconvincing because one person could not move fast enough and the baselines which one person could assemble just were not strong enough to really show that an idea was worth taking flight
may no longer be true. The limiting factors are frontier model token and compute budgets, researcher skill, drive, foresight and imagination, not capability to work in teams.
> a clever idea pursued by one person it was likely to arrive late and unconvincing because one person could not move fast enough and the baselines which one person could assemble just were not strong enough to really show that an idea was worth taking flight
may no longer be true. The limiting factors are frontier model token and compute budgets, researcher skill, drive, foresight and imagination, not capability to work in teams.