AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
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- Nov 6, 2026
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AI is dramatically accelerating AI research was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 6, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 67 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #6 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 01:52 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 13:24 UTC.
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As somebody who does ML research, LLMs certainly make ML research faster. Maybe even 10x in some cases, as the author suggests. But that’s just the parts of ML research that take place within your compute environment, namely experiments on model architecture, training strategy, UI/UX, etc. The algorithms and…
Every dot in these graphs is composed of multiple benchmarks smooshed together. Benchmarks are by definition a curated set of things that can be measured and evaluated. Things that can be measured and evaluated can be (expensively) trained on. The progress we are observing comes from figuring out how to measure and…
AI is accelerating my work...work which only exists because of AI. If I had to do my individual tasks without AI, I would be slower. But if I take a step back, I'm really not changing the world any faster than I was before.
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#6 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 01:52 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
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It was first seen on Nov 6, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (67 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
295 points and 231 comments; submitted by yurivish on Nov 6, 2026.