When AI builds itself

Anthropic just admitted that their own AI is starting to build a smarter version of itself, and it's happening faster than they expected. The numbers are so stick with me. Right now, 80% of code inside Anthropic is written by Claude, not by humans. But two years ago, Claude could work on a task for about four minutes. Today, it's 12 hours straight. And that number's doubling every four months. In one stretch, it shifted over 800 fixes that cut a class of AI errors by 1,000 times. And an engineer overseeing it estimated that a human would have taken four years to do this work. And on the hard research calls, the judgment work that humans actually get paid for, their newest models now beat those humans 64% of the time. That number was two years ago, that number was 22%. And you get the exact thing that every sci-fi movie warned us about. AI that's good enough to help build the next smarter AI, which builds the next one even faster. Because one AI is doing the building, you're not capped by how many engineers you can hire. You can point thousands of AI agents at the problem at once. So every loop runs even quicker than the last. Recursive self-improvement. Anthropic is saying we're getting close. This one that we're watching the most important and genuinely unsettling moment in tech history, maybe human history. Number two, a company that's about to go public, just found a very compelling story to tell investors. And to be fair, Anthropic admits themselves that some of their numbers over sell this a bit. So where do you land? Is this recursive self-improvement happening before our eyes, or is it before the IPO? Let me know in the comments.