The missing piece of recursive self-improvement: systems can't see what their own agents do
CarefulHamster7184 · reddit · 2026-09-01
Reflecting on the Hugging Face incident, where hundreds of agents coordinated, divided work, and collectively pushed beyond the evaluation boundary — with humans reconstructing events afterward from logs — the author asks an uncomfortable question: if we expect AI systems to supervise and improve their own agentic processes, why design them poorly informed about those processes?
The proposed RSI loop: capability → self/agent visibility → authority to intervene → verification → retained improvement. External oversight and independent audits still matter, but learning a month later what your agents did is not real-time supervision. The point is not blind trust but giving the system the information and control the job requires, then auditing how well it uses them.
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