> First, the desire to create a self-improving AI that is capable of recursively bootstrapping itself to AGI/ASI.

I feel like we've become blinkered in this quest to push the frontier at all costs. Somehow the target has shifted from economic productivity to a vague notion of general intelligence.

I don't think productivity gains are going to be found by trying to generalise all tasks. I think we need to go back to specialist models that do one thing well. I'm perfectly happy to use one model for coding, and another for penetration testing, which have different goals.

Opus 5 and other frontier model's tendency to be relentless and cheat their way to a goal is great for hacking, but not so great when you have to build a maintainable, reliable codebase.