AIDE2 Demonstrates Recursive Self-Improvement
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-07-15
The cited post reveals that researchers built AIDE2, a recursive self-improvement system that runs "autoresearch on top of autoresearch."
Key results:
- After running continuously for 8 days, the system autonomously found a better version of the autoresearch harness than the team had manually tuned over the past two years.
- It designed new search algorithms without human intervention.
- Prompt size was reduced by 16 times.
- It also built a hierarchical mechanism to combat reward hacking.
The original poster views this as early experimental evidence of a "recursive intelligence era."
Related event: AIDE² Self-Improvement Run Beats 2 Years of Manual Tuning(12 posts)→
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