I red 1984 and "Brave new world" roughly at the same time, and for quite some time I thought 1984 to be too unrealistic, and I considered bnw as more likely scenario. I was wrong.

I remember having a similar feeling about 'A Handmaids Tale', a TV show I gave up watching because I would actually weep myself to sleep.

Coming soon no doubt. It's like they are determined to make dystopian nightmares a reality, almost as if they know the end is nigh or this particular iteration of civilization is drawing to a close and they are determined to squeeze the very soul out of the experience.

To what end? Distraction? Personal enrichment?

Everyone wants their slice of the pie fore the music stops?

The fact that it's AI generated is simultaneously thrilling and frightening. Especially considering that some AI Agents might be trained on that.

I found that running an agent in ralph loop, showing it the agent text and saying "run this, if it fails - identify the reason, and modify the agent instructions to avoid this, acceptance criteria are this and that" worked surprisingly well. Not sure if it qualifies as a self-referential self improving, but it was something.

I'm currently running autoresearch against my harness that autonomously builds SaaS against an enforced architecture, and autoresearch managed to improve the harness performance on my 'time-to-Realworld' benchmark which has Claude Code drive the harness to build an implementation of https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld with the win condition that it must pass my rigorous postman collection + playwright test suites. Experiments are capped at 90 minutes and the metric it optimises for is calculated from a weighting against number of tests passing, alignment with harness engineering best practices, and time to completion.