Recursive Superintelligence

“I used GPT-5 to co-author a paper — after finishing, I realized the model was already basically strong enough that I didn't need to hire a research assistant. Many ideas and approaches could be realized purely through dialogue with the model. This was when I thought: maybe in 5 years I'll be replaced. Rather than be replaced, I'll start a company.”

“Anthropic's article basically still reflects what we discussed — AI enabling AI to self-evolve and self-iterate, getting better and better. The algorithms inside are fairly standard, putting many conventional ideas together.”