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The interviewer says many AI researchers were working on reasoning in 2022 and raises the possibility that their progress was bottlenecked by their ability to write infrastructure code.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“happening um on this trajectory of like this constant you know as compute keeps increasing we make more breakthroughs i don't know i feel like there were a lot of ai researchers in the year 2022 who are trying to crack reasoning and it was just that they were like bottlenecked by the ability to write infrastructure code or like what”
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