AI Engineer YouTube · July 18, 2026

Stop Burning Tokens: Why self-improvement needs domain expertise first - Annabell Schäfer, Langfuse

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Why it matters

We ran auto-improvement loops on a paper classification task against a ground-truth dataset. A real problem, narrow enough to measure precisely, and in fact one of the few clear cut target functions out there. We’ll share how to properly set up an agent for auto-improvement, what task specificity and target function qu

My takeaway: Stop Burning Tokens: Why self-improvement needs domain expertise first - Annabell Schäfer, Langfuse is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.