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.
When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
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#32I cannot wait for these models to tear down traditional social hierarchies. We havent even begun to see the effects, fingers crossed
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#33> 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…
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#34> 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…
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#36What 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.
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#38So based on my experience with the verbosity and non-DRYness of LLM code, a solid 2.5x in value delivered. Not bad!
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#39> 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…
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#40One 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.