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Using a search-based scaffold as the initial code base leads many agent-generated ideas to draw on search literature.
Zhengyao Jiang · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“a bit like how you design a neural network architecture where you introduce inductive biases for the learning process. If the initial code base is based on a search-based scaffold,”
“like eight,”
“then a lot of ideas agent came up are actually...”
“coming from search literature. But if you give the initial code base as a react agent,”Play from 7:49Report a misattribution
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