This was actually a bit of a metajoke about recursion mixed with the old adage of being replaced with a shell script mixed with commentary on how the criticisms of the language model are so formulaic that the language model can generate them.
Yes, it's brilliant! I love how novel things like these always end up on their own axis of reality, while everyone (including me) is trying hard to project them onto whatever predisposed axes we're hauling around.
