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If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
The problem is the infinite other literature produced along the way. It doesn't work to throw more monkeys at the problem of verification, and checking for matches against existing Shakespeare plays is cheating.
tijebs gi yo,
Is the original part the VCS that works at 1000 commits/second? Or spending a bunch of money comparing models?
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Yes, that's true, but in the post, they even mention that building the spec is the scarce resource. For that to work, the swarm has to actually follow the spec, which is what much of this post is about. We gave the swarm 835 pages of prose and it came back with a database. What was scarce in this experiment, and what we expect to be scarce in software engineering going forward, is the right description of intent.
We're rediscovering the "architect" job role a decade or so after switching to agile processes and staff engineers largely replaced it. God help us when they rediscover UML for agents.
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It's hard not read such quotes and immediately think of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
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It's hard not read such quotes and immediately think of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
Douglas Adams said this beautifully in the Campaign for Real Time & the poet Lallalfa.
And I just found out h2g2.com is no longer online, so no reference.
Kudos
This is almost a year behind Steve Yegge's first post on beads. Gas Town and Gas City provide orchestration for the swarm. So far I haven't seen a perfect implementation but this idea isn't new.
This is almost a year behind Steve Yegge's first post on beads. Gas Town and Gas City provide orchestration for the swarm. So far I haven't seen a perfect implementation but this idea isn't new.
I also don't know that beads is a very strong example that Yegge knows what he's doing - it's famously been described as (pseudo)malware.