Rethinking Agent Design: The Path to Truly Scalable AI Systems
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In 2019, Rich Sutton published a thought-provoking piece titled “The Bitter Lesson”, reflecting on the evolution of artificial intelligence over the past seventy years. Sutton argued compellingly that general-purpose methods leveraging massive computational power consistently outperform specialized, human-engineered approaches. This insight reshaped our understanding of how scalable AI systems could—and perhaps should—be designed.