GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
THE SO WHAT
Netflix experimenting with LLM-native recommendation is a shot across the bow for classical recsys—content platforms are testing whether unified language models can replace bespoke pipelines. If you run personalization at scale, you should be running bake-offs between your current stack and LLM-based approaches on narrow slices of traffic.
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