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The Overnight Speed Loop: Asking AI Agents to Make Code 7x Faster

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Here is a sentence that would have sounded insane eighteen months ago: a developer pointed a coding agent at a machine learning algorithm, told it "make every benchmark at least 1.2x faster, then repeat until you run out of ideas," went to bed, and woke up to code faster than a library that had bee…

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  1. 2026-09-28 16:08 · DEV Community — AI
    The Overnight Speed Loop: Asking AI Agents to Make Code 7x Faster

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