It is hard to forecast how much the future of recursive self-improvement will rely on harnesses, but harness engineering will likely evolve toward self-improvement and enable auto-research, producing smarter systems in turn.

Lilian Weng frames RSI's future as likely driven by evolving harnesses (the scaffolding around models) rather than models rewriting their own weights, with harnesses potentially enabling auto-research. ✦ AI generated

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It is hard to forecast how much the future of RSI will rely on harnesses. Likely harness engineering will evolve in the direction of self-improvement and enable auto-research, and, in turn, smarter

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