Stanford published 9 lectures from CS 329A, its graduate course on self-improving AI agents, and I spent 3 weeks last month working through them. One argument runs underneath all 9: the generator has raced ahead of the verifier. More samples put a correct answer somewhere in the pile. Nothing tells you which one it is. This recap walks the lectures in the order they were taught, and nearly every number in it came out of a PDF rather than off a slide.