ian fischer

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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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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 foundation models are released.

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HIGHian fischer·Y Combinator·6 months ago· position
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 foundation models are released.
"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…"
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