The Overnight Researcher — How Our AI Agent Improves Itself While We Sleep

At 2am, while we sleep, Atlas reads its own logs. It looks for patterns in what broke, what wasted time, what repeated unnecessarily. Then it writes code fixes, updates its own memory index, and documents what it changed. By morning, it's measurably better than it was when we went to bed. This is the overnight researcher pattern - and it's one of the most powerful things we've built into our AI agent system. The Problem It Solves Most AI agent systems degrade over time.