AI researcher on nightly loop: asking the computer to fix the computer to improve the computer
ericmitchellai · x · 2026-09-21
AI researcher Eric Mitchell jokes about his nightly routine: "asking the computer to use the computer to fix the computer" so he can get back to making the computer better at using the computer — a pithy take on recursively delegating dev-environment debugging to AI agents.
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