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Trojanowski: Closing the agent self-improvement loop will be close by year-end
“I think that closing the loop is gonna happen pretty fast. I think you'll have, like, I don't know about the entire loop being closed, but I think you'll be Relatively close by end of year.”
Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:12:02 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
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Trojanowski: Scaling Verifiable Rewards Won't Reliably Automate Tax Returns
“I don't believe that if you were to train a model, you know, and you scale up the amount of pre-training computing, you scale up the amount of Like post training from like perfectly verifiable rewards that suddenly will output a model that will do a tax return…”
Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:16:37 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
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Trojanowski: AI models will subsume agent harness engineering in 2-5 years
“I think that how long it will take to get swallowed up. I don't know exactly. You know, I think it's probably sub five years. I don't think it's sub two years. I think it's probably sub five years.”
Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:17:48 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
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