The bitter lesson of LLM evals

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The bitter lesson of LLM evals Position July 13, 2025 The bitter lesson of LLM evals Turning expert judgment into a compounding moat. Because in LLM evals, scaling care beats scaling compute. Authors Affiliations Charles O'Neill Parsed Mudith Jayasekara Parsed Max Kirkby Parsed In the history of artificial intelligence, there is a famous principle known as the Bitter Lesson. Coined by Rich Sutton, it observes that the biggest gains in performance have consistently come not from elaborate, human-designed knowledge, but from general methods that leverage massive increases in computation. The les

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