Codex predicts a quarter of user messages, sparking hill-climbing RSI joke

Codex can accurately predict about a quarter of user messages sent to it, prompting researcher Adam Karvonen to half-jokingly suggest that hill-climbing on next-message prediction could be a path to recursive self-improvement (RSI).

2026-10-10 ~ 2026-10-10 · 3 related posts

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