Introduction

"This may be the story of how it all began." —— Andrej Karpathy

This is the No.48 article in the "One Open Source Project a Day" series. Today, we delve into karpathy/autoresearch ( autoresearch ).

If previous AI development was about "humans spending hours tuning parameters in front of a screen," Andrej Karpathy (founding member of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla) has just revealed a complete paradigm shift: letting AI Agents take over the research process. This project is not just a training script; it is an autonomous experimental loop where an AI Agent experiments, evaluates, and iterates on a codebase to discover neural network structures more efficient than those manually tuned by humans.

What You Will Learn

Autonomous Research Paradigm : The shift from manual tuning to AI-driven discovery.

The 5-Minute Wall Clock Budget : How fixed time costs drive algorithmic efficiency.

Metric-Driven Evolution : Using vocabulary-independent metrics like BPB for fair…