Anthropic warns of rapid shift toward autonomous AI self-improvement (opens in new tab)

Anthropic reports that artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to develop, test, and improve its own successors, a process known as recursive self-improvement. While humans previously drove every step of the development cycle, the company now delegates a significant portion of coding and research tasks to its models. Internal data reveals that Claude now authors over 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s codebase, allowing engineers to ship eight times more code per day than in p...