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Comments on No. 50 of 110 · Guy Freeman · edition of Thursday 29 October 2026

The Bitter Lesson for Humans

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The author built a cryptic crossword solver with elaborate Bayesian machinery, then found that a frontier model handed the whole puzzle in one call solved 93 of 116 grids for about 28 cents each, beating the full system.

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