Progress Reported in Self-Improving Agent Experiment
ChengleiSi · x · 2026-07-15
A reshared post claims to have obtained the "first experimental evidence for Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI)."
- The subject is an automated research agent that continuously researched and improved itself over 8 days.
- The author claims the new results on a held-out test set outperformed their manually tuned harness developed over two years.
- The original thread (7 posts) emphasizes this as experimental validation for automated research and self-improvement.
Related event: AIDE² Self-Improvement Run Beats 2 Years of Manual Tuning(12 posts)→
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