AI Recursively Improves Itself via Harness
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-13
Lilian Weng published a roughly 28-minute read discussing how AI can achieve recursive self-improvement by modifying its own "shell"—the harness.
The author considers it one of the most solid public articles on AI self-improvement to date. The post elaborates that a harness isn't just a simple prompt template, but a complete system built around the model, integrating planning, tool calling, context management, storage, and evaluation.
Related event: Lilian Weng's Deep Dive into Recursive Self-Improvement via Harness(9 posts)→
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