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- 01Loop of the day8 Nov 2026Research automation
Ajeya: AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now
The loop: Anthropic's AI systems automate AI R&D, which accelerates capabilities progress, leading to better successor models that are even better at automating AI R&D.
Anthropic's internal report suggests the company has crossed its 'dramatic acceleration' threshold, marking a major milestone in AI automating its own R&D.

- 026 Nov 2026Tools and harness
Flex-RSI: Benchmarking Recursive Self-Improvement of Frontier Agents
The loop: An improver agent revises its own harness and executor based on task feedback, which improves the agent's ability to solve vision and robotics tasks in subsequent rounds.

- 034 Nov 2026Tools and harness
meat-daemon-404/dsh-plugin-immune
The loop: A coding agent converts its own failed tool calls into immunity rules, which improves the agent's future performance by preventing repeated mistakes.

- 046 Nov 2026Self-modifying agents
The components of agent memory
The loop: Claude uses a dreaming mechanism to organize memory and correct mistakes, which improves its internal state, which makes the model better at learning from experience.
loop fit 7/10via Anthropic
- 059 Nov 2026Research automation
ReproBridge: Building Reproducibility into ML Research Artifacts
The loop: The ReproBridge agent constructs reproducible research artifacts, which improves the ability of successor agents to reproduce and build on ML research.

- 066 Nov 2026Kernels and compilers
MorphSched: Workload-Aware Adaptive Scheduler Generation for Linux
The loop: MorphSched uses an LLM to synthesize Linux schedulers, which improves system performance, and uses that performance feedback to refine its generation strategy.

- 076 Nov 2026Self-modifying agents
Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library
The loop: EvoLib extracts knowledge abstractions from its own inference trajectories to build a shared library, which improves the model's performance on subsequent problem instances.

- 089 Nov 2026Tools and harness
meat-daemon-404/dsh-plugin-immune
The loop: A coding agent converts its own failed tool calls into immunity rules, which are injected to prevent repeated mistakes, improving its future performance.

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- Gemini models propose code changes
- Evaluators keep best scoring versions
- Finds better Gemini training kernels
- Lowers cost to train next Gemini models
- repeat

- Coding agent edits its own code
- Scored child agents enter the archive
- Archived agents make later self modifications
- repeat

- RL agent lays out TPU blocks
- Better layouts make AI hardware cheaper
- Agent pre-trains on earlier chip generations
- repeat

- Coding agent edits LLM training script
- Runs a 5-minute training job
- Keeps change if validation improves
- Changes transferred to larger models
- repeat

- Research agent writes harness mutation blueprints
- Coding agent implements harness module changes
- Winning harness becomes the new champion
- New champion harness runs further generations
- repeat

- Aligned model generates training data
- Reward model judges and filters it
- Data trains next intermediate instruct model
- Next model generates better alignment data
- repeat

- Model generates candidate responses to prompts
- Model scores them itself as a judge
- Scores become preference pairs for DPO
- Trained model becomes next generator and judge
- repeat

- Claude Code writes its own code changes
- Changes become next Claude Code versions
- Release becomes harness for next development round
- repeat

- LLM agents write and benchmark kernels
- Kernels speed up AI model training
- Session data post-trains smaller kernel models
- repeat

- Coding agent writes fine-tuning code
- Agent post-trains a base LLM
- Trained model scored on target benchmark
- One turn of model training another
- repeat

- Learned optimizers update other learned optimizers
- Training keeps best performing optimizer parameters
- Better optimizers train each other faster
- repeat

- LLM reads reasoning model thoughts
- LLM flags reward hacking behavior
- Signal feeds back into training reward
- Trains more aligned capable agents
- repeat
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