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- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 12:05pm-12:25pm
- Track/room: Autoresearch · Main Stage
- Speaker(s): Elie Bakouch
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
the nanogpt speedrun is a great setup to test autonomous research: fixed model, one number to beat,
and a human record that keeps moving. we pointed coding agents at it on idle compute and let them
iterate for days, thousands of runs with minimal human intervention, until they beat the human
baseline. in this talk we go through how they did it, how codex and claude code behave very
differently as researchers, and why speedrun are one of the best environments we've found for
studying autonomous research agents
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