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		moandcompany on March 21, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn a... JG is famous for research teams doing "hillclimbing" but the organizations doing this seldom thought deeply about where they were hoping to end up, what would be good-enough, or when it would be time to find a new hill.

tunesmith on March 21, 2025 [–]

You mean the whole local-maxima problem?

kridsdale1 on March 21, 2025 | [–]

The key weakness of the iterative development strategy.

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