# The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts

**Published:** November 8, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/the-inventor-of-the-bitter-lesson-has-a-bitter-lesson-for-llm-scaling-en

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Tworek agrees, saying blind transformer scaling "has reward hacked brains of a whole generation of…

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed. Ex-OpenAI researcher Tworek agrees, saying blind transformer scaling "has reward hacked brains of a whole generation of scientists." A growing wave of startups is already betting on exactly this gap. The article The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts appeared first on The Decoder.

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**Tags:** #OpenAI

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