The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 8, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Turing Award winner Richard Sutton, author of the influential 2019 essay "The Bitter Lesson," writes in a new post that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence. AI science needs clever new methods and is "far from finished." Sutton had already