The compounding effect of incremental improvements

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mberg · 51m ago

One way to think of an incremental improvement is cutting a sharp edge of a process, solution or problem. A single improvement may not make a noticeable difference but in aggregate the changes can compound to transform a nascent idea to a viable solution. We think this particularly relevant when thinking about AI.

We created this little visualization to help demonstrate it.

https://recodelabs.github.io/increments/

Example - The compounding effect of incremental AI coding improvements has made it now possible to build something like this just to illustrate this example!

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The compounding effect of incremental improvements

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