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8 picked from 125 candidates · 31 sources read · 72 loops indexed
- 01Loop of the day26 Oct 2026Research automation
Infinity Machine: a self-improving AI agent for research
The loop: An AI agent modifies its own harness, prompts, and meta agent to solve and verify open scientific problems. These modifications pass through a kernel-enforced gate and are directly used by the agent to conduct further autonomous research.
Infinity Machine demonstrates a closed loop where an agent autonomously edits its own harness and meta-agent to achieve state-of-the-art results in quantum information.

- 0225 Oct 2026AI R&D evals
ParetoRSI-Gym: Can AI Agents Improve Language Models Across Multiple Domains?
The loop: An agent searches for and curates training data to post-train its own successor across multiple domains. The resulting model is evaluated on generalization benchmarks, and the results guide the agent in the next round of data selection.

- 0326 Oct 2026Hardware and chips
How NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield
The loop: AI models analyze telemetry to optimize GPU yield and cluster resiliency in AI factories. This optimization improves the hardware infrastructure that trains and runs those same AI models.

- 0422 Oct 2026Tools and harness
Reproducible Evaluation as the Substrate for Safe Prompt Compression in Production Agents
The loop: An offline evaluation harness drives GEPA-based prompt optimization for a production conversational agent. The resulting compressed prompt is deployed back to the agent, shrinking its prompt surface while maintaining or improving task correctness.

- 0526 Oct 2026Tools and harness
How Ultrafast cut incident investigation from hours to minutes at OpenAI
The loop: Codex Ultrafast helps engineers investigate incidents and refactor code. This accelerates the development and security analysis of the underlying AI systems, including Codex itself.
loop fit 6/10via OpenAI
- 0623 Oct 2026Training data
On-Policy Self-Training: Data-Free Self-Improvement in Large Language Models
The loop: A foundation model synthesizes its own curriculum of queries and privileged reasoning traces guided only by high-level topic descriptions. These synthetic traces are used for on-policy self-distillation, improving the model's performance across multiple domains.

- 07Tools and harness
Harness Evolution as Learning: Approximation, Generalization, and Optimization Limits of Self-Improving Personal Agents
The loop: Personal agents evolve their own harnesses to optimize performance on tasks. The evolved harness is then deployed as the runtime environment for the agents, improving their execution of future tasks.
loop fit 8/10via Awesome-AI4AI
- 08Research automation
Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy
The loop: An autonomous system automates large-scale omnidisciplinary research tasks using a prompt economy. This automation improves the efficiency of the research process, which is then used to develop better AI systems.
loop fit 7/10via Awesome-AI4AI
Loop index
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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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