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AI Has Started Building AI — and It's Already Here

Matt Maher — Jun 8, 2026 — talk

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Analysis of Anthropic's essay on recursive self-improvement, explaining how AI systems now write 80% of their code and can perform multi-day engineer tasks in single requests. Covers Google's 93-agent, 12-hour $900 build of a Doom-running OS as a concrete example, and argues the conversation around AI pause buttons misses the more important point that working with self-building AI today is challenging and loses the reasoning behind code decisions.