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This should be utterly unsurprising to anyone familiar with build tools history. In an effort to eat their own dogfood, build tools have traditionally been used to build themselves, whenever possible. Clang-llvm builds clang-llvm. It is the natural next step for a AI code development project to author and build itself. If it’s producing poor quality code that is clearly a bug in the code base / weights itself and we can fix that and then hypothetically see the improvement over the problem in question but also the rest of the code base. It is the sensible way to move forward.

When the time comes we would also expect to see robots built not in factories but by other robots from a bucket of spare parts. A factory can only deliver the throughput that it was specced for and is forever limited to that until you build another. Robots building robots can grow exponentially and is basically only limited by the logistics of delivering parts to an ever expanding body of robots. (Insert comical descriptions of rabbits with an unlimited supply of food reproducing faster than the speed of sound.) While a factory can bootstrap this process, ultimately the repeated doubling will dwarf its capacity into irrelevance. The early winner in the robot arms race will be the one who makes robot assembling robots with the shortest generational time and cheapest parts list.

See also 3D printers.