AIDE² Outperforms Hand-Tuned Version
PMinervini · x · 2026-07-15
The author highlights an experiment with AIDE²: after a research team spent two years manually tuning an autoresearch agent, a new experiment letting "agents research agents" autonomously surpassed the manual version on a held-out benchmark in just 8 days.
The key takeaway is that during 100 steps of unsupervised search, AIDE² explored many traditional approaches—like island GA, MCTS backup, and restart policies—but most were rejected. Ultimately, it won by combining simple mechanisms the team hadn't anticipated. The author views this as an early empirical signal of Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) at Level 1.
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