Krentsel: AI takeoff flywheel will emerge from agents iterating on harness code
Alex Krentsel · Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research · Aug 15, 2026 · at 45:39
Alex Krentsel discusses self-modifying agent harnesses and their potential to trigger a recursive self-improvement takeoff.
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“There's a moment like that happening now, and this is the moment that's going to be a flywheel, I feel like, because this takeoff moment will come from being iterating in the same layer that you are producing, I think.”
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