Martin Casado slams sloppy use of RSI term as fear-mongering that fuels ban calls
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-11-07
a16z partner Martin Casado argues that sloppy, overly broad use of the term RSI (recursive self-improvement) is dangerous: many technologies have autocatalytic effects, but that isn't RSI. Calling basic things like using AI to write GPU kernels "RSI" feeds fear-mongering and fuels rhetoric like Rep. Casar's call to "ban RSI."
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