"An autoresearch loop set to 'make it jiggle more'" — AI researchers feel like mission control

generativist · x · 2026-10-28

generativist extends the sfcompute "missions" joke: while that's not what he's using it for, somewhere out there someone has an autoresearch loop set to "make it jiggle more," and they feel like they're overseeing Houston — poking fun at the gap between the grandiose framing of autonomous research tooling and the actual research content.

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