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The team configured the agent to optimize itself by improving its harness, including its prompts and tools.
Tim Scarfe · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“But what they did was they set it up recursively. So they actually like hill climbed towards improving the agent itself.”
“And what that means is improving the harness. So, you know, the prompts.”
“prompts and the tooling and you know all of the skill surface all of the things that the harness can do and they just left it running they just left it running and they saw what happened”Play from 3:38Report a misattribution
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