Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Karpathy’s autoresearch could make scientists of us all


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Welcome to Exponential View, the show where I explore how exponential technologies such as AI are reshaping our future. I’ve been studying AI and exponential technologies at the frontier for over ten years.

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Published in early March 2026, Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch AI tool makes autonomous scientific experimentation cheap and easy — but it was designed to solve machine learning problems. I wanted to see if I could apply its loop architecture to my own work: refining my worldview, testing arguments, solving business problems. In this video, I share how I adapted Karpathy’s autoresearch loops for problems that aren't easy to quantify, how to avoid the local minima trap, and the broader impact of these kinds of methods. I covered:

(02:11) The Karpathy Loop: what is it and how does it work

(07:54) Extending the loop into business and thinking
(09:46) The local minima trap
(12:20) The escape harness: getting beyond “good enough”
(16:05) What I’ve learned after 30 days
(18:47) The loop economy: from doing to judging

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