https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/0558dfdd-d7f6-4f44-ac33-3e2823638b12 When coding agents got good enough at the end of 2025, Morgan Stanley's roughly thirty person research group asked what would happen if agents ran the research, not just wrote the code. The result is AlphaLab, a multi agent system they built and open sourced. You hand it a problem in plain language and it writes the code, sets up back tests and evals, configures and submits cluster jobs, and runs the statistical tests, managing its own context as it goes. They skipped every off the shelf framework and wrote their own harness so they could watch how it reasons and bake in their own standards. The shape is a strategist that proposes experiments and workers that run them, laid out as a board of cards people can read, edit, and approve before the loop optimizes against a weak eval. Rappazzo shows it finding real gains now used internally, from fine tuning a model to predicting credit bonds, and argues the lasting human job is designing the verifiable environment the agents compete in, like a private Kaggle, while they handle the middle. Speaker info: https://x.com/brendanh0gan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-rappazzo-hogan-763734115/, https://www.bhogan.net, Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction: a thirty person research group 1:30 - What changed when coding agents arrived 2:55 - Building AlphaLab 1.0, open sourced 4:34 - Encoding enterprise standards into the system 6:40 - Why they skipped off the shelf harnesses 8:21 - How the research loop runs 9:36 - Strategist and worker agents 10:40 - Guarding against a bad eval 13:23 - Finding real improvements 16:12 - Verifiable environments, like Kaggle 18:45 - The human job in the limit Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:13:49 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.ut0pia.org https://video.ut0pia.org/lazy-static/avatars/0287a09a-aae7-4840-9843-b416426e7046.webp https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/0558dfdd-d7f6-4f44-ac33-3e2823638b12 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.ut0pia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.