Recursive Self Improvement

It mortally wounds me to agree with that bag of hot air Dario Amodei on anything but here we go...

Mapache hit a major milestone yesterday/today - the tool can be used to improve the tool. Considering the tool was built with AI and enables AI I suppose this could be interpretted as the fabled doomsday "AI that improves itself." Note no planes fell out of the sky yesterday, no horrible events that weren't already in motion suddenly happened, and as far as I'm aware- no jurisdictions suddenly started allowing dogs and cats to be married. In short the world didn't end.

It was however, a big day for me/the project. In part, because I go to go see The Pokemon Fossil Hunter Exbitit with my four year old, but also because I got Mapache wire up for improving Mapache. This has happened in the past with other tools I've made. And usually leads to a hockey stick moment in growth. Not because of AI having some spooky mystical powers, but because I start dogfooding my own product. Using it as my daily driver helps me see things like 'oh ____ is obnoxious'.

You can see this externally if you look in the issues, you'll see a bunch of issues are not being written by the mapache github connector (who incidentally needs a new profile picture, but I digress).

All in all, a super exciting milestone, and Dario was right about recursive self-improvement around AI. At least the half sentance where he says "AI is progressing extremely fast". As my dad used to say, "even a blind sow finds an acorn every once in a while."