@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy reward going down is like loss going down no ?
will brown@willccbb
@yacinelearning @karpathy autoresearch but the training perf gets worse every iteration
2:53 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 239 Views
Sami Jaghouar of Prime Intellect questions whether decreasing reward signals behave like loss signals in degrading automated training loops
Automated feedback loops show degrading performance across successive iterations.
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am.will@LLMJunky
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy 🤣
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Noah Ziems@NoahZiems
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy This is exactly what hiring phd interns are for. They've automated my job away
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will brown@willccbb
@yacinelearning @karpathy autoresearch but the training perf gets worse every iteration
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q@gradientdespair
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy AutoDegradation by Anthropic. Thanks @karpathy
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Golden Hippie@gamestoneai
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy AI impostor syndrome. Model sandbags its own training runs.
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Venkat — inference & RL/acc@venkat_systems
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy
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Trash Panda 🦝@trashpandaemoji
@willccbb @max_paperclips @yacinelearning @karpathy I would just simply do the opposite.
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arXiv Bangers@arXivBangers
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy B-Banger…
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chris@candyflipline
@willccbb @yacinelearning @karpathy wait that would be hilarious
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vincenzo@alargemike
@willccbb @max_paperclips @yacinelearning @karpathy that’s right
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