Anthropic staff: researchers no longer understand what they ship as recursive self-improvement kicks in
ronbodkin · x · 2026-10-08
Ron Bodkin argues AI automation must be paced by understanding, citing insider voices from frontier labs.
- An Anthropic technical staff member admits losing grip on model-driven research: "I myself barely look at raw code anymore."
- Researchers across the stack are rapidly increasing dependence on models even to perceive the world.
- Recursive self-improvement — AI building the next generation of AI — is now happening across the industry, including at Anthropic.
- Bottom line: when researchers no longer know what they're shipping, it's going too fast.
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