Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...

Before working on OpenAI's Codex, Michael Bolin was at Meta and Google. He said he's learned a thing or two about making an impact in Big Tech.