Anthropic engineer on how to design good RL training tasks
BraceSproul · x · 2026-10-14
Anthropic's Eli Gottlieb published an article distilling lessons from building many RL tasks—mostly poor at first, a few decent, and finally some good ones—into insights about the task generation process.
The piece is a first-hand engineering writeup on what makes a task well-suited for RL training and how to construct one, useful for anyone working on agent training and eval engineering.
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