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Siddharth uses self-improving AI agents to help run Turing

Jonathan Siddharth · Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth · Jun 18, 2026 · at 33:13

Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth explains his personal use of autonomous AI agent scaffolding to manage company workflows.

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“For example, I have a project at Turing that I run. I have a few agents running around to help me run Turing. The way I improve that code base is to also have an agent suggest to me, how should I improve the code base and to do it? So it's in a self-improvement loop by itself.”

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