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Y Combinator
Mar 3, 2026
AI
Startups
Technology
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Topics: AI | Startups | Technology
Ian Fisher, Poetic co-CEO ex-DeepMind, unveils recursive self-improving AI harnesses outperforming frontier models cheaply.
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Build reasoning harnesses outperforming base models.
Layer recursive self-improvement atop LLMs.
Automate prompt engineering boosting 5% to 95% performance.
"recursive self-improvement is this, you know, kind of the holy grail of AI, where the AI is making itself smarter." - Ian Fisher