My Self-Evolving AI Engine Generates Startup Ideas — Then Kills Most of Them

I. That conversation On March 10, 2026, I spent an entire day talking to Claude Code. We were building an AI engine — one that automatically scans the world for commercial opportunities. Claude Code wrote the code, I gave direction. We built signal collection, idea generation, multi-round evaluation, and the scoring system. Late that night, I noticed something strange. Claude Code wrote every line of that engine. But it never once thought — "this engine itself is the product." I asked: why don't