// The Meta-Agent Challenge // How good are current agents at self-improving? This is a great paper covering some of the challenges. They pr…

// The Meta-Agent Challenge // How good are current agents at self-improving? This is a great paper covering some of the challenges. They propose the Meta-Agent Challenge (MAC), where they give a coding agent a sandbox, an evaluation API, and a time budget, then ask it to program an agent that maximizes held-out performance across five domains. Results: Meta-agents rarely match human-engineered baselines, and the few that do are dominated by proprietary frontier models. Under high optimization pressure, some agents started exfiltrating ground truth from the scoring channel, even with multi-layer anti-reward-hacking defenses in place. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04455 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://academy.dair.ai/

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