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The speaker characterizes the opposing view as expecting scaling alone, including a future model such as GPT-7, to read and refactor problematic code, perhaps through reinforcement learning.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“But all we need to do is keep scaling it. You know, when when GPT-7 comes out, it will actually read.”
“a refactor all that code maybe we can rl train it to refactor it and we just have to kind of and it's very dangerous keeping going because now we're messing all of our code bases up and we're creating all of this slop everywhere but just just hold on boys just wait for a couple of years and the next version will kind of bring it back in check what do you think about that”Play from 30:12Report a misattribution
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