Researcher skeptical: many projects rebrand harness optimization as 'RSI'
andrey_kurenkov · x · 2026-08-26
Andrey Kurenkov voices strong skepticism about projects positioning harness optimization as "recursive self-improvement": improving a harness against an eval objective isn't hard — the question is whether it generalizes or degrades performance elsewhere.
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