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kennywinkertoday at 5:25 AM1 replyview on HN

They don't even need to fudge the data on the studies they have published. They just need to hold back other studies that contradict the idea. Pouring over the published data looking for flaws will never get us access to the unpublished data.


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phoghedtoday at 11:13 AM

Even if this hypothesis that smaller specialized models are superior to larger models in a task as broad as software development, hyperscalers and the hyperfunded would still maintain a massive advantage in that they could just train 1000x more models than anyone else.

And let’s be real. If this were some conspiracy that OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic were tacitly or overtly conspiring on, I’m pretty sure Elon or Zucc would ruin it to get ahead