🔗 The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can by Ethan Mollick A thought-provoking article that, on the surface, explores which modality of AI agent deployment is more likely to succeed in a large organisation — agents carefully designed around organisational processes, or general-purpose agents trained to seek successful outcomes (RL, for example). But dig a little deeper, and it raises a more fundamental question: what shape will successful AI-powered products take?