Towards Self-Replication: Opus Designs Hardware to Run Itself ↗ ↖
(LLM written article) Everyone has their personal benchmarks for testing the latest AI models. One question I had in mind: can agentic AI reproduce itself? I ran this experiment on Opus 4.5 in January 2026, providing only vague prompts. To my amazement, it succeeded with a fully verified Verilog implementation of a custom processor architecture including assembler written firmware for LLM inference.