The Ouroboros AI Isn’t Learning to Improve Itself. It’s Learning to Keep the Money Flowing.
The Ouroboros coding agent, which tops benchmarks by evolving its own harness, isn’t just a technical breakthrough—it’s a perfect metaphor for the self-referential funding loop that sustains AI research. The top comment on the paper nails it: ‘Named for the funding model.’ This article reveals the uncomfortable truth behind the hype.