I was catching up with a friend who had also been building AI products for a few years now. We were lamenting (and laughing) on the graveyard of seemingly-failed projects that now have turned into rapid successes. AI features that were multi-quarter grinds a couple years ago can now be shipped in a matter of weeks.We realized that we had just actually learned "the Bitter Lesson" - building AI products edition.The Bitter Lesson - from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage ...