Second Law: Invention is the mother of necessity.
“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”
-Al Ries
You need to introduce an entirely new paradigm, which requires reaching much higher on the cumulative technology ladder than previous solutions. Because while the accumulation of tools is continuous, there are discrete periods in history when those tools have gotten better enough to make new solutions possible.
Better Tools, Bigger Companies
For now, at least, innovation is a uniquely human ability—one that would be critical to a system that could recursively imagine and create better versions of itself.