Jimmy, co-founder of xAI, mentioned in his resignation statement that the recursive self-improvement loop is likely to go live within the next 12 months. On February 5th, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Codex, and the technical documentation included this statement: 'GPT-5.3 Codex is our first model that played a critical role in its own creation process. The Codex team used its earlier versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluation outcomes.' AI helped build itself. This isn’t a prediction about the future. This is OpenAI telling you that the AI they just released was created using its predecessor. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that now 'most of the code' at Anthropic is written by AI, and the feedback loop between the current generation of AI and the next is 'gaining strength month by month.' Just like Claude Cowork, which was also written by AI in just ten days, he said we might only be one to two years away from 'AI autonomously building the next generation of AI.'