It is a subtle topic, but right now I believe it is clear for everyone in the field that main differentiator in developing AI at this specific moment of 2026 is *how* you use AI to develop it
I asked 51 people in AI who has a good read on RSI (recursive self-improvement) and where it's going:View quoted post on X
5 votes:
- Jerry Tworek, Core Automation (@MillionInt)
4 votes:
- Jun Park, Hillclimb (@jparkjmc)
3 votes each:
- John Schulman, Thinking Machines (@johnschulman2)
- Rohan Anil, Core Automation (@_arohan_)
- Daniel Chang, ex-Mercor (@dnnssl2)
- Laksh Aithani, Abundance (@LakshAithani)
- Richard Socher, Recursive (@RichardSocher)
2 votes each:
- Andrej Karpathy, Anthropic (@karpathy)
- Behnam Neyshabur, Mirendil (@bneyshabur)
- Han Fang, Meta Superintelligence Labs (@Han_Fang_)
- Herbie Bradley (@herbiebradley)
- Jennifer Zhou, Preference Model (@chem_safety)
- Paul Christiano, Alignment Research Center (@paulfchristiano)
75 people were picked. The other 62 got 1 vote each and are in the next posts.
51 people voted, each picking from people they've met. I didn't vote.