RSI explained

Just how long will it be until AI can improve itself? (Also known as recursive self-improvement or RSI.) Well, AI coding abilities have exploded in 2026. In May 2026, Anthropic merged 2,500 code changes per day within their organization. By September, they were merging over 30,000 per day . They had to replace Git in their internal mono repository to handle the load of all that AI generated code. In fact, Claude is even leading model R&D. In February 2026, under 1% of their work was led by AI; by August, it was 26% . The definition of AI "leading" the work is that AI can complete most of the task end-to-end from a high-level prompt, while the human supervises (level AL4 from Epoch AI). Over 90% of their work is level AL3 or above ("AI collaborates"). This is quite a high level of autonomy, though Anthropic still claims that "Claude is not operating fully autonomously for any measured subset of AI R&D work" -- or claimed such, as of August. On November 2nd, Anthropic amended their SEC S-1A filing one week after their initial public filing. One of the changes was the addition of the sentence, "our internal estimates [...] indicate that we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling P