Coding agents that read papers before writing code find optimizations that code-only agents miss. We added a literature review phase to Karpathy’s autoresearch

Coding agents that read papers before writing code find optimizations that code-only agents miss. We added a literature review phase to Karpathy’s autoresearch loop and pointed it at llama.cpp. The agent autonomously read arxiv papers, studied competing forks and spun up VMs to run parallel experiments.