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Jun 11, 2026 5 min

Self-Harness: Can AI Rewrite Its Own Operating Rules?

from Intellectually Curious Hosted by Mike Breault

We dive into the Shanghai AI Lab’s self-harness idea—a three-stage loop (weakness mining, harness proposal, and proposal validation) that lets AI models inspect their own failures, propose minimal workspace edits, and sandbox-test changes before evolving. Explore how personalized, autonomous fixes improve unseen-task performance, the risks of self-modification, and what this could mean for scalable AI agents and future scientific discovery. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

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