# Measured

- **Event:** [The Recursive Agents Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon)
- **When:** Sat, Oct 17 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Shardul Aggarwal](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/shardula), [Nathan Qiu](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/nqiu)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/nathanqiu07/RecursiveAgentsHackathonProject
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/vasMwsAZC7s
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/45

An AI data center is a stack of optimization problems: where the racks go, how equipment is placed, the GPU kernels, and the inference bill. Code can check every one. Our harness turns any problem with a programmatic verifier into a team of Nemotron agents on Crusoe that improves itself. Agents share an evidence-gated memory: a lesson enters only if it cites a measured result. After each round, a research agent proposes changes to the team as papers, each with a predicted gain. The verifier reruns the dev tasks, and a change is kept only if it measurably scores higher or cuts cost by 15% or more. No LLM grades anything. The final version is scored on held-out tasks the team never saw.

We ran it on four layers. Inference cost per correct answer fell 31%, with no answer lost. Rack placement improved from 0.597 to 0.845. The gap to QAPLIB's best-known solutions narrowed from 4.3% to 3.6%. Correct GPU kernels went from 1 to 2 of 5. On hall layout, the gate rejected every proposed change, because none measurably helped.

## More from The Recursive Agents Hackathon

- [Gemba](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/42)
- [BrainBob - Shared Memory](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/43)
- [manubaba](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/44)
- [Silk Lab](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/46)
- [EvoAction](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/47)
- [Clueso](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/crusoe-recursive-agents-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/48)

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