The speaker says the approach was not demonstrated as early as possible because researchers faced practical implementation details and lacked sufficient intuition about parameter tuning and setup.

“So maybe you can demonstrate everything on like Quen 1B or whatever and get some sense that this whole thing is going to work. But people didn't demonstrate it as early as they could have because like, you know, all of these other like mungy details and intuition about exactly how to tune the parameters and how to set things up.”