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▶ 2:39 · $POETIC · Poetic's recursive self-improving harnesses beat fine-tuning at half the cost
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The Powerful Alternative To Fine-Tuning

2026-02-27 · 1 company · 2 thematic
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ian fischer

Founded Poetic building recursively self-improving AI reasoning harnesses. Previously spent a decade as a researcher at Google DeepMind after Google acquired his first YC startup Portable (cross-platform mobile devtools). Background in computer security and systems building.

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“what we end up giving you is a harness that sits on top of one or more language models and it just performs better than them. And when the new model comes out that same harness is perfectly compatible with it. You don't need to change anyt…”
—ian fischer
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Poetic's recursive self-improving harnesses beat fine-tuning at half the cost
Poetic's meta-system automatically generates reasoning harnesses that outperform fine-tuning, are model-agnostic, cost a fraction of retraining, and improve automatically when new…