Dev pushes back on RSI hype: frontier labs just have 'infinite tokens' and use AI for everything
dyn___ · x · 2026-11-14
In an exchange with Joshua Saxe, developer dyn argues that "recursive self-improvement" is a loose buzzword: frontier labs effectively have infinite tokens and use AI for everything, so "RSI is already happening" is trivially true but misleading. He questions whether it's truly recursive or just a layer of models running experiments and fixes.
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