# karpathy/autoresearch

By Saurabh Kumar · TIL note, Jun 8, 2026 · Tags: harness, performance

Source: https://saurabh-kumar.com/til/1780920000/

[karpathy/autoresearch] is a concept/framework that allows one to leverage LLM to run an optimization loops based on a criteria. [davebcn87/pi-autoresearch](https://github.com/davebcn87/pi-autoresearch) takes this further has built a generic optimization long run loop method on top of pi agent. [gemini](https://gemini.google.com/app/7dcee9714f7955ce)