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Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand... by heggy on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:57AM (#50437737)
Isn't this just the Bitter Lesson over and over again? Specialised approaches get outperformed by more compute and a simpler general approach pretty much every time.
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Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand... by try-working on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:17AM (#50438253)
Bitter lesson is wrong. Large general models are outperformed by small specialized models.
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Re:Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strand... by 9rx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:27AM (#50438810)
The Bitter Lesson makes no distinction between large general models and small specialized models, assuming they are both trained from data.

The Bitter Lesson is that human-written rule models will always lose out to trained models in the end.

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