One-Paragraph Prompt Matches Your 'Carefully Designed' Autoresearch Pipeline
generativist · x · 2026-09-23
Criticizing the wave of AI autoresearch implementations, generativist argues that for some well-defined tasks, saving session files and iterating reveals the RL-like behavior — and a one-paragraph prompt produces results 'crazy similar' to the so-called carefully designed systems, suggesting much of the engineering is overrated.
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