[immibis]

It's self-improving? So, we can ask AI how to improve AI, and the suggestions actually work?

[sesm]

It's more like Intel in early days using their CPUs to compute layout for bigger CPUs.

[ethbr1]

Effectively: is the limiting factor to improvement addressable by the thing being improved?

If yes, then you get exponential increases very trivially. If no, then something external continues to bottleneck progress.