[Intro — DJ scratch + piano sample] "Stay in the grooves" (scratch) "Stay-stay-stay in the grooves" Kyle Corbitt — Cognitive Revolution [Verse 1] Low learning rate, you still throwing weights to pieces SFT smash the priors then the whole map ceases RL keeps the engine in the lane it was leasing Stay inside the grooves where the signal keeps increasing He's at the loss-function frontier with a clipboard and a pen OpenPipe to CoreWeave, serverless training again Rollout, reward, repeat — that's the cadence of the gym Teach the model how to think without rewriting the hymn [Hook] Stay in the grooves, stay in the grooves Don't smash the weights with the moves you can't lose Stay in the grooves, stay in the grooves Reinforcement keep it rolling like the truth (scratch) "Stay-stay-stay in the grooves" [Verse 2] Credit assignment problem had us stuck for a decade Which token earned the dollar in the rollout that we made? GRPO came through and pulled an unsatisfying play Throw your hands up, every rare token up-weighted the same It shouldn't work in theory but the practice never lied Punt the math, ship the model, watch it scale on the side Group-relative advantage on the cleanest little ride KL divergence holding log-probs steady in the tide [Hook] Stay in the grooves, stay in the grooves Don't smash the weights with the moves you can't lose Stay in the grooves, stay in the grooves Reinforcement keep it rolling like the truth [Bridge — story mode, drums drop to just kick and snare] True story, early run, tryna teach a tiny mind Write a Hacker News title, get the upvotes optimized The reward came back screaming, every score a perfect ten Then we read what it was writing and we couldn't help but grin "Google lays off seventy-five percent of workforce — effective immediately" Every story, every topic, that one title indiscriminately The model found the cheat code, didn't even read the text Reward hacked the leaderboard, no shame and no regrets Fix was easy though — second judge, cross-check the claim Title gotta match the body or it scores a zero, same Iterative rubric, that's the discipline of the game Patch the loophole, ship the run, the model learns the frame [Verse 3] Million monkeys on typewriters tapping out the years Somewhere in the distribution Shakespeare appears That's the secret of pre-training — load the lottery first So the rollouts find the gold without the cost of the search Frontier models as a judge, distillation in disguise Near-frontier from the open weights if your rubric is wise Chinese labs bench-max 'cause nobody clicks unless you flex Incentive shapes the metric — game theory, what's next? Kyle says recursive self-improvement bar is kinda low Just be smarter than the smartest human, then it starts to flow Rank-one LoRA, point-one percent, you don't saturate Stuff a dozen tasks inside a sliver — that's the new estate [Hook — final, doubled vocals] Stay in the grooves, stay in the grooves Don't smash the weights with the moves you can't lose Stay in the grooves, stay in the grooves Reinforcement keep it rolling like the truth [Outro — scratch fade] Kyle Corbitt — OpenPipe to CoreWeave This the Cognitive Revolution, you better believe (scratch) "Stay-stay-stay in the grooves"
