I’ve had very good results running autoresearch with local qwen 3.6 26b model as long as I had a simple vibed pi “advisor” extension that allowed it to periodically ask GPT 5.5 for ideas. I think this direction has a lot of merit.↗
for those of you who are autoresearch pilled , or have been meaning to get into autoresearch but dont know how - I shipped evo today - a opensource Claude Code plugin that optimizes code through experiments
you hand it a codebase. it finds a benchmark, runs the baseline, then fi…↗
i've been working on a method called autoreason that is effectively autoresearch extended to subjective domains. autoresearch works because val_bpb gives you an objective fitness function. autoreason constructs a subjective one through independent blind evaluation, the same way s…↗