{
  "title": "Keep evaluation fixed during local search",
  "caption": "Local search keeps evaluation fixed. A separate review examines questions about goals, metrics or controls. A new objective starts a new comparison. The outer loop is the author's analytical proposal, not a claimed autoresearch feature. Author-created explanatory diagram. Playback time is for this example. Animation time is not measured runtime.",
  "alt": "Research flow: proposals, experiments and tests use a fixed objective. A separate review can change the setup and start a new comparison.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "path": "content/blog/2026-04-06_The-Age-of-Auto-Research-and-Other-Certainties/post.md",
      "description": "Article mechanism and retained citations"
    },
    "https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "This playback is an example. Playback duration is not measured runtime.",
    "The setup-review loop is the author’s synthesis. It is not an implemented autoresearch feature.",
    "Supported and rejected results are example outcomes. This is not a captured experiment."
  ]
}