a16z's Casado: AI improvement is autocatalytic, not recursive
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-08-21
Martin Casado argues that "recursive self-improvement" is misused. True recursion implies wholesale copying (e.g., a compiler building a compiler). Current AI progress is "autocatalytic"—using tools to build tools faster, a phenomenon long present in software engineering.
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