The Agent Research Loop
What Karpathy's autoresearch really means, where agent systems are headed, and an open-source harness that ran 550 experiments over a weekend.
8 min read
Hamza Mostafa
I build things on the internet and write about systems, creativity, and craft.
About
I'm a builder and tinkerer. Previously: Agent team at OpenAI. On leave from CS at the University of Waterloo, KP fellow.
Right now I'm exploring multi-agent systems, long-horizon agents, and reinforcement learning.
If you want to chat, say hi on X.
Writing
All postsShort notes on building, taste, and the kinds of problems that keep me interested.
I Run a Personal AI Agent 24/7 on a Mac Mini. Here's How It Actually Works.
A Mac Mini, some markdown files, and seven communication channels. Inside the setup that gives me a 24/7 AI assistant that monitors my email, iMessage, WhatsApp, and Twitter - and actually does useful things.
12 min read
I Let AI Agents Train Their Own Models. Here's What Actually Happened.
Two frontier agents, a pile of bugs, and a reality check on the future of autonomous AI research.
7 min read
Contact
The fastest way to reach me is via a DM on X or a note on LinkedIn.