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Qasim Wani
Co-founder, Extrapolate
Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Qasim Wani (Co-founder, Extrapolate) talking, from an interview on MTS published Nov 6, 2026.
What Qasim Wani said
- 1:36
Recursive self-improvement means inventing a new lab
“can an agent invent the next version of itself”
at 2:24 - 10:20
High-quality data is the bottleneck for recursive improvement
“rsi is fundamentally a data problem it is not a model problem it is a data problem”
at 11:21 - 18:53
Models still struggle to diagnose a failed training run
“almost every single time all the models gave the complete different answer and an incorrect answer”
at 20:50 - 14:28
Synthetic coding tasks can leak answers through commit patches
“the agents act accidentally leaked the code that was deleted in the commit”
at 15:46
- 1:36
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