Atem Aguer

@stanford cs

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

The first AI programmer will be created within the next 1-3 years. It'll be an LLM exposed to a terminal. Unlike chatgpt trained for dialogue, it'll be trained to use the terminal to run commands, browse and edit files, and debug its own code. All the components are already here

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

bullish!

[Aidan Guo @aidangch]

A billion people produce the most valuable dataset in the world every day – and delete it every night.

We’re recording it.

Introducing @AttentionInc

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@BanghuaZ @Zai_org when is miles/smile getting a tinker-api frontend?

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@matei_zaharia really cool work @matei. meta-harnesses are certainly becoming a thing: https://t.co/qAyW1cfQtm

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@sdand @rishi_desai2 @xai lmaoooo

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

as distillation is starting to see wide-spread adoption, i wanted to share a reference tinker implementation for on-policy context/self distillation that i and @rishi_desai2 wrote for our @xai hackathon from last december: https://t.co/REcN65TLaE

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

2025 was the year of rl. 2026 is the year of distillation

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

we built a self-improving and continually learning ai recruiting agent: https://t.co/Gt4eie8HgH

[Rishi Desai @rishi_desai2]

Can coding agents stay coherent over a 1 billion token budget?

Can they build Slack from scratch?
Rewrite a JAX codebase in PyTorch?
Build a C compiler in Rust?

Enter SWE-Marathon: a benchmark for autonomous long-horizon software work.

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@hsu_byron @xai @periodiclabs Congrats! Byron

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

anthropic about to cook with sonnet-5 midtrained via distillation pretraining on mythos

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

2025 was the year of rl. 2026 is the year of distillation

[Poke @interaction]

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[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@marvinvonhagen @interaction 🙌🏿

[idan shenfeld @IdanShenfeld]

People keep saying 2026 will be the year of continual learning.

But there are still major technical challenges to making it a reality.

Today we take the next step towards that goal — a new on-policy learning algorithm, suitable for continual learning!

(1/n)

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@Baconbrix when is support for private repos coming?

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@ccheever when is launch coming for private repos?

[Siyan Zhao @siyan_zhao]

Introducing 💡On-Policy Self-Distillation💡, a simple method that enables LLM to teach itself with dense per-token feedback on its own on-policy generations—achieving 4-8x more token efficiency vs. GRPO and outperforming both GRPO and SFT/Off-Policy Distillation.

Key insight: like a student reviewing solutions, rationalizing them, and correcting prior mistakes, an LLM can be conditioned on privileged info (e.g., correct solution or a reasoning trace) and supervise its weaker self—the version without such access—by matching the privileged-info-induced distribution from itself.

🌐Blog: https://t.co/u2G20GjI6d

🧵👇

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@rishi_desai2 huge!!!

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@robjama @marvinvonhagen

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

@tunguz @marvinvonhagen

[Atem Aguer @leithnyang]

perfect time to contribute. skyRL tx is pioneering a unique approach to next-gen unified inference and training engines that will be critical for problems like continual learning

[Philipp Moritz @pcmoritz]

Happy new year! We are excited to announce SkyRL tx 0.2.1, see https://t.co/ekRlMx5yxC. Some highlights of the release include FSDP and multi-node support, Llama 3 model support, custom loss functions, a number of performance improvements and also lots of small fixes that implement more functionality of the Tinker API. The blog post also includes a performance comparison with the Tinker Service! Enjoy the release and happy hacking!