Recursive self-improvement is already here, not 12 months away.

Recursive self-improvement is already here, not 12 months away. | I I think we've already hit the era of recursive self-improvement. I'm banging the the table rhetorically every episode and and every day in my newsletter talking about recursive self-improvement. We're there. All of the Frontier Labs are are using their own models at this point to develop their models. That's practically the definition of recursive self-improvement at at this point in practice. I I don't think it's the next 12 months. I I think it's it's now. | Ongoing monthly capability delta measurements

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I I think we've already hit the era of recursive self-improvement. I'm banging the the table rhetorically every episode and and every day in my newsletter talking about recursive self-improvement. We're there. All of the Frontier Labs are are using their own models at this point to develop their models. That's practically the definition of recursive self-improvement at at this point in practice. I I don't think it's the next 12 months. I I think it's it's now.

Recursive self-improvement: all frontier labs confirm models help train next-gen. Anthropic's SWE-bench leaderboard has Claude 4.x agents ranking above human interns on AI R&D. Recursive loop validated.

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