https://antolinez.ch/2026-02-02T08:34:08+00:00Felipe Antolinez2026-02-02T08:34:08+00:002026-02-02T08:34:08+00:00https://antolinez.ch/2026/Feb/2/welch-labs-bitter-lesson/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/2hcsmtkSzIw">Can humans make AI any better?</a></strong></p> Another great Welch Labs video about the bitter lesson, contextualizing the recent Dwarkesh interview with Rich Sutton.</p> <p>Many people misunderstand the bitter lesson. It's not that some solutions are "past" it while others aren't. It's a ladder of increasingly general approaches to the same problem, with a persistent tradeoff between heuristics that perform well now versus general methods that win in the long term, given enough compute. <p>Tags: <a href="https://antolinez.ch/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://antolinez.ch/tags/youtube">youtube</a>, <a href="https://antolinez.ch/tags/bitter-lesson">bitter-lesson</a></p>