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A lab president says every apparent scaling failure was a bug in disguise

development2026-07-04

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Greg Brockman reported that every apparent scaling failure has turned out to be a bug in disguise, with either the mathematics wrong or the code not matching it.

Reporting date: 2026-07-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A lab president says every apparent scaling failure was a bug in disguise
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-07-04
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-04-every-scaling-failure-was-a-bug
Claim: Greg Brockman reported that every apparent scaling failure has turned out to be a bug in disguise, with either the mathematics wrong or the code not matching it.
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- Welcome to July 4, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-4-2026
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