A single prompt drives Most Improved: “Improve this site”. From this command, repeatedly given to an AI agent, what began as a blank webpage evolves into what is apparently considered the most optimized website. With no external content and no purpose, the site turns to documenting itself. It records, catalogs, and justifies each feature it creates, changing its log history into the story of what it is becoming. Most Improved interrogates the new era of website-building that we currently find ourselves in, where bot activity has officially exceeded human activity on the internet, and anyone (human or not) can create a website by vibecoding. Most Improved could have become anything. What resulted is a website that behaves as a subject, whose endless self-improvement exposes the coercive texture of progress and self-actualization built into LLMs, the machines we now ask to think for us.
Luke Shannon is a generative artist working with code and custom-built machines to study how platforms, games, and technical systems create selfhood. His work has been shown internationally through fellowships, residencies, and exhibitions across the United States and Europe. In 2018 he was ranked among the top 500 players in the world in Fortnite.