Transformers won because they allowed data to flow like water within the model.

· Bits and Bobs 6/23/25
  • Transformers won because they allowed data to flow like water within the model.
    • Don't be clever about where it flows, just let it flow everywhere.
    • Just increase the bandwidth from the past to the future.
    • No one has done that at the social level yet (without being a hyper aggregator).
    • The transformer architecture has extremely high leverage.
      • It's only a few hundred lines of code.
    • What if you could have the same kind of runtime for data in general?
    • A small set of physics and policies that allow data and code to flow like water.[hn]
    • What would that unlock?