Autoglyphs was almost a project that we wanted to do for ourselves at that time. We had the idea not long after CryptoPunks. We thought about it and even took a few cracks in 2018 but gave up because we hit some technical limitations.
John Watkinson, Matt Hall and John Watkinson on Beginning Movements
I think Autoglyphs was even an inspiration for Art Blocks, stressing the separation of the artist from the outputs, that the artist just makes the code.
John Watkinson, Larva Labs on Computation’s Strangeness