RL Scaling

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Bourgeau: Vibe coding performance stems mostly from RL scaling and post-training

“I think this is, yeah, this is in general for vibe coding specifically, I think that's maybe more of an RL scaling and post training thing where, where you can actually get quite a lot of data and train them all to do that really well.”

Sebastien Bourgeau Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 46:15 ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI

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Douglas: OpenAI's o1 established test-time compute and RL as a scaling axis

“And I think OpenAI deserves a lot of credit for you know, releasing the first, like, serious RL plus LLMs release with O-one. And I think this really kicked off a pretty, you know, substantial change because it opened up a new axis of scaling, right? There was…”

Sholto Douglas Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 50:01 Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)

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Patel: RL scaling is outpacing pre-training scaling

“RL scaling is happening much faster than even overall training scaling.”

Dwarkesh Patel Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 13:38 Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition

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