Comment by _heimdall

That limitation feels very much artificially imposed today, much like LLMs (mostly) not being able to learn from prompts or alter their weights on the fly.

One can stand up an agent like openclaw and prompt it with something very general. That would kick off a recurring loop that could indeed see the agent decide for itself it needs to design new chip hardware. Technically a human kick started that loop, but when does that stop being important? I don't attribute all of my actions and decisions to the fact that my parents brought me into this world, for example, and I'd hope they aren't legally on the hook if I screw up.