autoresearch stuck in the issues queue

Five open issues outline the next frontier: licensing questions, pluggable optimization tracks, and a pivot toward data-centric research.

@karpathy has filed five substantial issues against autoresearch this week, none yet merged. The most ambitious: Auto-Research Tracks, which proposes pluggable idle optimization across harness, skills, memory, and model selection. A separate pitch for data-centric autoresearch suggests the project may be at an inflection point. Pending work also includes a JudgeModel layer for snapshot-diff scoring and a call to expand the harness generator into the pattern/memory/security design space. Licensing remains an open question.

autoresearch-cpu accumulates commits

The CPU-bound variant of autoresearch picked up 17 commits this week but remains undocumented in the public record.

@karpathy's CPU adaptation saw steady churn. No releases, no PRs, no issues filed. The work is opaque from the outside.

EvolvedAI keeps the lights on

The social simulation fork of autoresearch registered 17 commits but no user-facing activity.

@karpathy committed to the prompt-only social simulation built from autoresearch, but nothing shipped or broke this week.