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4 July 2026

Lilian WengArticle

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

The real story is not the philosophy recap, it's the claim that frontier labs are already seeing measurable acceleration in research velocity from AI-assisted development. If that's true even in a limited pipeline sense, it changes how you should think about the pace of capability gains over the next 12 months. Read this as a framework for interpreting why release cadence keeps compressing, not as a warning about takeoff scenarios.

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