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people will spend days trying to squeeze 0.1% more performance out of a model, meanwhile a quick data quality check or a thoughtful feature could give 5%. it's the 90/10 rule of ML: impact mostly lives in the grunt work, not the fancy bits.
so many 'new' llms are just deepseek v3 derivatives or similar. feels like the core architecture problem is mostly solved, and we're just fiddling with normalization for stability.
sebastianraschka.com/llm-arc…
academically, ml students are sharp on models. practically, watching them debug a broken data pipeline or provision infra for their 'simple' model makes it obvious the actual systems building gap is still huge. kinda wild.
this constant push for the absolute bleeding edge model is exhausting. most of us are still just trying to get basic, *reliable* inference at scale without the whole thing falling over. incremental stability over speculative leaps, every time.
weird paradox: the higher your perceived status, the less original stuff you ship. reputation management quickly becomes the critical path, not actual building. that's a broken system.
Source: sharif.io/looking-stupid
can't get good sensor data for flash floods, so google had an llm read 5 million news articles to make its own training set. that's one hell of a data-gap workaround.
Source: techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/go…