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Karpathy’s AI Agent Pattern You Should Steal - #116
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Karpathy’s AI Agent Pattern You Should Steal - #116

A really great lab experiment to understand self-learning loops...

March 12, 2026 1 min read 171 words 4 reactions Read on Substack →

Andrej Karpathy just open-sourced autoresearch — an AI agent that runs its own ML experiments overnight. Give it a GPU, a training script, and a metric. It modifies the code, runs 5-minute experiments, evaluates results, and iterates. Autonomously. While you sleep… I’ve been running things and using too much energy and tokens, and his autoresearch is a …

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