# Karpathy Went to Sleep and His AI Agent Ran 700 Experiments. What It Found Should Worry Researchers.

- slug: karpathy-went-to-sleep-and-his-ai-agent-ran-700-experiments-what-it-found-should-worry-researche
- date: 2026-04-04
- category: Artificial Intelligence

In 17 hours, Karpathy’s autoresearch agent rediscovered techniques that took Google Brain and OpenAI nearly eight years to formalize. Separately, a single developer showed that agents with memory and red-team feedback do not just optimize — they learn.

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