> We can't improve ourselves, but that's only because we're meat, not code.

Doesn't seem like computers can improve themselves either. Mainly because they're made of silicon, not code. "AI can read and write its own code" doesn't exist right now, but even if it did, why is that also implying "AI can read its CPU Verilog and invent new process nodes at TSMC"?

(Also, humans constantly break things when they try changing code - the safest way to not regress yourself would be to not try improving.)