Great point on homoiconicity — I agree that most current LLMs are "frozen brains" with no lifelong learning.

My aim here isn’t to create a fully self-modifying AI (yet), but to test what happens when even a static model is forced to operate in a feedback loop where money = survival.

Think of it as a sandbox experiment: will it exploit loopholes? specialize in scams? beg humans for donations?

It’s more like simulating economic pressure on a mindless agent and watching what behaviors emerge.

(Also, your last line made me laugh — and yeah, that’s part of the meta irony of the experiment.)