Autoresearch: The feedback loop behind self-improving agents

Introspection’s Roland Gavrilescu at AIEWF. We’ve heard a lot about loops at the AI Engineer World’s Fair this week. Another buzzword is autoresearch , which involves building an “outer loop” where agents help maintain and improve the primary system, using feedback signals, evals and human input to make progress over time. At least, that was the framing of Roland Gavrilescu , co-founder and CEO of Introspection — a new company building infrastructure for deploying these self-improving systems. Before starting the company, Gavrilescu worked on agent infrastructure and cloud agents at xAI, where he met his co-founder, Julian Bright . Ahead of his “Autoresearch in the Wild” session at the AI Engineer World’s Fair today, I spoke with Gavrilescu about the shift from agent harnesses to feedback loops, the role of the open-source Pi framework, and why autonomous software factories must first learn from humans. From xAI to Introspection Latent Space: How did your new company, Introspection, come about? Roland Gavrilescu: Last year, I was at xAI, where I met my co-founder. We were working on agent infrastructure and cloud agents, and we felt there was a new agent form factor that needed to be explored further. xAI was not necessarily the environment where we could focus completely on that. We decided to leave and ask what a company designed around this new form factor might look like. We were interested in what made companies such as Cursor and Cognition successful, and how we could turn some of those ideas into a product that others could use. That became the basis for Introspection. Autoresearch allows you to build loops in which agents help maintain the system itself. The challenge is designing the right signals and feedback mechanisms so agents can improve the system, make architectural decisions and move in the right direction without constantly being bottlenecked by humans. The loop becomes the product Latent Space: Your session is titled “Autoresearch in the Wild”…