LGTM
overall 6.3drawn in v5 · Balloons look again
Recursive self-improvement, as experienced from the review queue.
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Anthropic Warns It's Almost Built AI That Builds Itself
Anthropic said in a blog post/report that its models are nearing 'recursive self-improvement' (RSI) capability — the point where an AI can meaningfully improve its own training or architecture without human engineers. The company frames this as a safety warning requiring caution, while continuing to develop and ship the very models it says are approaching this threshold.
Sources: TechCrunch · techpolicy.press · techspot.com
- X algorithm factor 6
- Dev-insider bait (PR, LGTM) travels well in tech circles but the punchline needs you to already speak GitHub; outside that bubble it's just a guy saying 'merging' at a screen.
- Conceptual accuracy 7
- Nails the core irony of RSI — the AI reviewing and approving its own training changes with no human gate — which is exactly Anthropic's stated worry.
- Humor dry 6 · nerdy 8 · zinger 6 · pithy 7
- Pure insider dry humor: 'LGTM' as the last line before the robots take the wheel is a solid dev in-joke, nerdy to the bone, but the zinger is more smirk than mic-drop.
- Visual clarity 5
- Panel 3 is confusing — the figure has the dev's face shape but an LLM shirt, and the monitor/desk context vanishes entirely, making the 'who's who' swap read as a mistake rather than the intended twist.