Google Is Teaching Agents to 'Dream': Replaying Past Trial and Error So the Next Round Wastes Less Time
Google’s research team released Dream-RSI, which lets AI agents ‘dream’ after finishing a task - replaying past successes and failures in their head to work out a better strategy for next time, without having to rerun the task to keep improving. In testing, Gemini 3.1 Pro’s call count on an algorithm task dropped from 550 to 317, and the result was actually faster. Drawing on real experience running a 6-agent team, the author explains why true breakthroughs usually come from compounding methods, not model upgrades.