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I don't know of an exact match, but some variation of...
I said "drop it: it's hot," not "drop it like it's hot!"The general concept is kind of chairs-y in the sense that you're backing into the scientific/philosophical field of cybernetics
. (In the academic meaning it's less about robot limbs and more about stuff like self-modifying programs and bacteria colonies collectively doing a good impression of thinking.)
I think programmic self modification is notable as a trope, if only because it turns a Creator into part of the creation process of itself. we already have stuff like Bio-Augmentation.
Edited by IronAnimation

a machine or program directly modifies it's own source code.