“L337 made herself”
Remember back when we thought a kid building a droid was implausible? Now droids can make themselves…
Have you met Frink? ‘He’ started off as a toaster, then ‘upgraded’ to a mac, and now look at him… just short of becoming self-aware - probably in a Skynet style too…
From 2014 (an article on self-building robots) - https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187736-harvard-mit-create-first-self-assembling-robots-the-first-real-transformers
and the idea of self-replicating machines has been around sci-fi (and fiction) for a good while now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machines_in_fiction
in reality too it seems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine#Advanced_Automation_for_Space_Missions