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Stanford's Yoonho Lee argues that text optimization methods like prompting are undervalued compared to gradient-based weight training

The methods offer superior sample efficiency in low-data settings.

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Yoonho Lee@yoonholeee

http://x.com/i/article/2064017981982859264

9:51 AM · Jun 8, 2026 · 32.7K Views
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Omar Khattab@lateinteraction

as usual from @yoonholeee, this is extremely well-written and a great way to organize the major arguments in this space

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Ahmad Beirami@abeirami

Excellent piece by @yoonholeee!

Harness should be learned, not engineered, and you'll find rich research directions on harness optimization in Yoonhoo's post.

Yoonho Lee@yoonholeee

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Ahmad Beirami@abeirami

Excellent piece by @yoonholeee!

Harness should be learned, not engineered. You'll find rich research directions on harness optimization in Yoonhoo's post.

Yoonho Lee@yoonholeee

http://x.com/i/article/2064017981982859264

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oso@osoleve

@yoonholeee @a1zhang I started making Tools For This, glitchlings has tools for corrupting text as well as a starter toolkit for comparative sequence analysis (and lots of integrations), all FL/OSS 🫡

https://github.com/osoleve/glitchlings

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@lateinteraction @yoonholeee rare to see someone break it down without taking sides tbh

what stood out to u the most from it?

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@yoonholeee ^^ I'm building alot of this. Some differences. Improvement has to be gated, versioned for compliance. But there's ways to have best of both worlds. https://chatgpt.com/share/6a2731ea-d2d8-8330-a501-6f8001b7bb43

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