Kevin Roose

So part of it is just that the models themselves, the things that are sort of underneath tools like Cloud Code are just getting better very rapidly.

And part of that is because they're being trained on more coding data.

So they're sort of improving over time.

The other really interesting and really important thing that is starting to happen is that these AI tools are building versions of themselves.

They are starting to improve themselves.

So OpenAI's latest coding model, which is called GPT-5.3 Codex, was used to help build itself.

Early versions of the model were used to make changes to the training runs for later versions.

So this is happening across all of the leading AI companies right now, which is that you have these systems which can build websites, which can automate certain financial or legal tasks.

They can also help train AI models.

And so we're starting to see

Yes.

Yeah, this is a sort of scenario that we've heard about in science fiction for years, where you have AIs that are becoming increasingly capable.

They're building better and better AIs.

Within the AI community, there's this idea, this phrase of the intelligence explosion, which is when you have these systems that are doing what's known as recursive self-improvement, building better and better versions of themselves.

And so that is one possibility that these systems just start to accelerate their improvements to the point where they are sort of doing all of this autonomously without human involvement.

Now, there are some people who think this is still a far-fetched scenario, but just look at the trajectory.

I mean, a year ago,

You had these very clunky AI vibe coding tools.

Now they're running autonomously for sometimes hours at a time.

They can build and maintain real software, and they're starting to help build the next versions of themselves.