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A model's ability to write far more code than a person does not necessarily make that person 100 times more productive.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“that even if the model can write way more code than a person it doesn't make you like a hundred times more productive but yes so maybe maybe there are just more of these cycles than we would than we would expect”Play from 2:39Report a misattribution
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