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Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

Jack Clark, Anthropic’s co-founder, left on paternity leave last November. When he returned in February, he was surprised to learn that colleagues hardly wrote code anymore. They managed five or six copies of the company’s AI, Claude, which sometimes managed several more Claudes.

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

TL;DR

  • Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark returned from paternity leave to a changed work environment.
  • Colleagues were no longer primarily writing code.
  • The focus shifted to managing multiple copies of the AI, Claude.
  • Claude instances were capable of managing other instances of itself.