# Qasim Wani

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Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Qasim Wani (Co-founder, Extrapolate) talking, from an interview on MTS published Nov 6, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder, Extrapolate

## What Qasim Wani said

- [Recursive self-improvement means inventing a new lab](https://realalpha.app/s/recursive-self-improvement-means-inventing-a-new-lab/)
  MTS · Nov 6, 2026 · 6 min
  > “can an agent invent the next version of itself” — Qasim Wani · [2:24](https://realalpha.app/v/fH7CFf1wrpA/?t=144)
- [High-quality data is the bottleneck for recursive improvement](https://realalpha.app/s/high-quality-data-is-the-bottleneck-for-recursive/)
  MTS · Nov 6, 2026 · 4 min
  > “rsi is fundamentally a data problem it is not a model problem it is a data problem” — Qasim Wani · [11:21](https://realalpha.app/v/fH7CFf1wrpA/?t=681)
- [Models still struggle to diagnose a failed training run](https://realalpha.app/s/models-still-struggle-to-diagnose-a-failed-training-run/)
  MTS · Nov 6, 2026 · 3 min
  > “almost every single time all the models gave the complete different answer and an incorrect answer” — Qasim Wani · [20:50](https://realalpha.app/v/fH7CFf1wrpA/?t=1250)
- [Synthetic coding tasks can leak answers through commit patches](https://realalpha.app/s/synthetic-coding-tasks-can-leak-answers-through-commit/)
  MTS · Nov 6, 2026 · 2 min
  > “the agents act accidentally leaked the code that was deleted in the commit” — Qasim Wani · [15:46](https://realalpha.app/v/fH7CFf1wrpA/?t=946)

## The episode

- [Frontier AI Models Fail at Automated Research | Qasim Wani](https://realalpha.app/v/fH7CFf1wrpA/) · MTS · Nov 6, 2026