A screenshot revisits GPT-4’s napkin-to-code demo and imagines GPT-N building GPT-N+1
genmon · x · 2026-07-21
The attached screenshot recalls OpenAI’s GPT-4 launch demo, where a napkin sketch was turned into working web code, and uses it to argue that future models may increasingly be able to write the instructions for their successors.
- The post references the GPT-4 demo in which GPT wrote code from a simple sketch.
- It then suggests a recursive trajectory: GPT-N could help create GPT-N+1, repeating the cycle.
- The broader point is a speculation about ever-more-capable models automating the creation of the next generation of models.
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