A new Anthropic paper bangs the usual recursive AI self-improvement drum, while warning that someone—maybe, you know, increased—should slow AI developments, because ... AGI/ASI/paperclips, etc. Among other things, it presents the following graph based on internal data on increased developer productivity, as measured by software lines of code (SLOC) per developer.
Here is a key graph from the piece:
Four points on the problems with this graph, which will show up everywhere, and ... no one will care.