--- title: What's new in AI? | daily.dev description: A brief musing describes a shift toward goal-directed AI systems that iteratively evaluate their own progress and hill-climb toward a defined objective, made... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-ai--fdjud7v9o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What's new in AI? | daily.dev og:description: A brief musing describes a shift toward goal-directed AI systems that iteratively evaluate their own progress and hill-climb toward a defined objective, made... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-ai--fdjud7v9o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fdjud7V9o.png og:image:alt: What's new in AI? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What's new in AI? **[Microsoft Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/microsoftdeveloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief musing describes a shift toward goal-directed AI systems that iteratively evaluate their own progress and hill-climb toward a defined objective, made feasible now that tokens are cheaper and more capable. The speaker frames this as 'compounding improvement systems' being the future direction of AI development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-ai--fdjud7v9o) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What's new in AI?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-ai--fdjud7v9o","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-ai--fdjud7v9o"},"datePublished":"2026-09-02T16:09:26.906Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:20:17.065Z","description":"A brief musing describes a shift toward goal-directed AI systems that iteratively evaluate their own progress and hill-climb toward a defined objective, made...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lI1Oc-lFeCQ/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lI1Oc-lFeCQ/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Microsoft Developer","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Microsoft Developer","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--xZzU3zUq--/f_auto/v1746714872/logos/microsoftdeveloper","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/microsoftdeveloper"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-ai--fdjud7v9o","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,ai-agents","timeRequired":"PT1M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"What's new in AI?","description":"A brief musing describes a shift toward goal-directed AI systems that iteratively evaluate their own progress and hill-climb toward a defined objective, made...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lI1Oc-lFeCQ/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-09-02T16:09:26.906Z","duration":"PT1M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/fdjud7V9o","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/lI1Oc-lFeCQ"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Microsoft Developer","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/microsoftdeveloper"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What's new in AI?"}]} ```