"We don't write the rules. We just discover them. With AI.": How an autonomous agent searches for the groundrule, and what makes the loop different
A job-shop scheduling problem dressed up as a lunch rush: one grill, one shared range, and sequencing as my only lever. Rather than hand-write the rule, I let an agent propose candidates, run them across simulated services, and keep whatever beat the champion — trained on six scenarios, then held out against three more to check it found a principle, not a memory. Built on Nima H. Siboni’s “The Heuristic Scientist: Open-Ended Algorithm Discovery with LLMs” workshop.