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The Sequence Knowledge - Issue 945: Learning RSI: Agents that Rewrite their Own Scaffolding

L5 · ResearcherResearchTheSequence· 10/6/2026

Demonstrates breakthrough in autonomous AI self-improvement through code rewriting, relevant to AI safety and capability research.

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Sakana and Jeff Clune's Darwin Gödel Machine agent autonomously rewrote its own code, improving SWE-bench performance from 20% to 50% through self-generated improvements.

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An agent that opens its own source code and rewrites it now exists, and it works. What it chose to fix tells you more about self-improvement than any thought experiment ever did.

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