I think this old set of tweets from Luke Davis are onto something.

· Bits and Bobs 6/9/25
  • I think this old set of tweets from Luke Davis are onto something[jn][jo].
    • "Autonomic Systems will be key to the next phase of AI. This is not about parameter count and activation functions or transformers vs RNNs, it's the vast machinery of ordinary code wrapping the models, taking their output and bending it back as input for the next go round."
    • "Everyone was watching the magician's right hand, expecting recursive self-improvement to involve AI updating its own weights, but the real trick was hidden in the left hand—using the LLM to write code for the Autonomic System that envelops the model itself. "
    • "The Autonomic System surrounding an ML model is like the structure of culture and society around a human mind. Laws and markets and your mother's expectations are not themselves part of your neural net, but without them shaping your inputs, your outputs would be very different."
    • "Human history began when WE got Super-Autonomic Systems. After we evolved intelligence, the IQ of a normal human was about the same for many millennia. The big jumps in civilization were because of structure and peripherals: fire, writing, machines, the rule of law, code..."[jp]