Manor Labs walks back AI self-improvement hype after closer inspection
manorlaboratory · x · 2026-11-04
Manor Laboratory, after earlier excitement about "a whole new path towards self-improving models," now says skepticism is warranted on the headline claims:
- Raw weight reading in tiny networks is conflated with tool-assisted editing
- Qwen's math gains mainly reflect reduced looping, not a capability jump
- Interesting debugging perhaps, but superhuman ability and recursive self-improvement remain aspirational
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