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When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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post #5

Sorry but if AI can build itself then it can run companies of size 3000 companies with a few people. Or even higher. What are the consequences?

When AI is a more effective capital allocator than NI it will drive capital into the accounts of whoever controls the AI, gaining them increasing decision making power over the economy and culture. Maybe those controllers will be human at first.

They will not be.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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post #26

> If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing Even Anthropic wants to Pause AI now. There must really be not much time left for "edging". Please write to your lawmakers, no matter whether you are in the US, Europe, China, or elsewhere. Only an international agreement between gov…

That would be like trying to get every country to agree to give up nukes.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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post #26

> If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing Even Anthropic wants to Pause AI now. There must really be not much time left for "edging". Please write to your lawmakers, no matter whether you are in the US, Europe, China, or elsewhere. Only an international agreement between gov…

Whichever side I may stand on, pausing just seems unnatural? Life is movement.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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The world has been recursively self improving for millenia. Similar to scientology, this is a cult pushing sci-fi nonsense. They are just coupled to an LLM lab to give their stories an aire of seriousness. Imagine scientology starting making laptops.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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>A caveat: Lines of code is an imperfect measure, as it measures quantity over quality. So 8× lines of code/engineer/day in the second quarter of 2026 is almost certainly an overstatement of the true productivity gain. Nonetheless, it indicates an acceleration. At Anthropic, we don’t reward people for how many lines of code they write; rather, team members are producing more code simply because they’re using AI systems to write more code.

What about the hypothesis that AI is generating more verbose code? I just see the text pretending to acknowledge "LOC != Productivity" and then using it as a metric anyway.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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I cannot wait for these models to tear down traditional social hierarchies. We havent even begun to see the effects, fingers crossed

Tear down or reinforce?

capital/ability to leverage labor is going to lose power

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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> A caveat: Lines of code is an imperfect measure, as it measures quantity over quality. So 8× lines of code/engineer/day in the second quarter of 2026 is almost certainly an overstatement of the true productivity gain. Nonetheless, it indicates an acceleration. At Anthropic, we don’t reward people for how many lines of code they write; rather, team members are producing more code simply because they’re using AI syst…

I guess the claim is simply that AI written code is verbose and there’s lots of it being created but I agree, these systems seem to be able to create lots of low quality software, so until FreeCAD has feature parity with Solidworks I’m bearish on the singularity.

Re: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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Okay, so anthropic has amazing AI which supposedly writes most of their code and can continuously improve... meanwhile they have outages on a regular basis, and any kind of long-running work will now consistently hit 'API Error: Server is temporarily limiting requests'. Not sure of this is intentional to force a reduction of token usage, but at this point I need to build around these throttling limits and outages with my own tools to restart/resume sessions. From my experience, in the last 2 weeks, literally 100% of any non-trivial Claude session/work will now be blocked on these issues, requiring manual intervention.

One of my focuses now is my own model-agnostic, harness and workflow orchestration (I know everyone is building these) , baselining on opus, and aiming to transition to Chinese models like deepseek in the short term and hopefully open, self hosted models in the future (which I plan to open source).

The nonstop marketing fluff from anthropic while their service quality and availability noticeably degrades... just continues to destroy my trust in the company.

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