Autoresearch best practice: strictly separate Eval from code
Only_Management_1010 · reddit · 2026-08-17
After six months of running autoresearch loops, the author shares that iterative loops are now the dominant paradigm for development. Key learnings include focusing on designing robust evaluations and constraints, giving the agent maximum freedom, and strictly separating evaluation code from the design space. The author formalized this into a CLI tool that fixes evals before optimization, preventing manipulation, and logs findings to an HTML journal.
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