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Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by jibal » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

Esophagus4 wrote: post #37

kittikitti wrote: post #2

This is a very interesting experiment where I hope the metamorphosis is more like a butterfly than Kafka.

Yes, this could end up either turning into a Linux or like when Microsoft released Tay and Twitter users taught it to be a Nazi. Or anywhere in between, really.

It really can't for numerous reasons, one of them being that PRs have to be fairly low effort, and this will be even more so if the popular "merge daily" PR is voted in. People talk about this "evolving", but it's nothing like biological evolution or genetic algorithms. It's just a linear sequence of small changes, and without either planning and central authority or some stable fitness function (the ecological environment in biological evolution) the changes are directionless.

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by jibal » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

genghisjahn wrote: post #46

Kinrany wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most code by lines, perhaps, but not most code that works and is useful

Says who?

The name of the person who said it is on the left above the comment.

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by jibal » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC

anishgupta wrote: post #34

> The website IS the repo. The repo IS the website. I wonder if we get something productive by end of 2026 from this repo. Who knows, maybe we solve AGI

It's not possible to generate anything productive this way.

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by mistrate » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #19

I don't get the title. Do I understand correctly this is basically "Twitch plays Github" without Twitch?

yea

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by repeekad » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 11:08 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #19

I don't get the title. Do I understand correctly this is basically "Twitch plays Github" without Twitch?

GitHub plays GitHub?

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by omoikane » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC

SubiculumCode wrote: post #44

Firefox warns of a security threat when I visit the site.

Maybe Firefox is prescient, just waiting for someone to create a problematic pull request that does something untoward while simultaneously locking everyone else from submitting pull requests (and get a bunch of bots to upvote it in the last second before the merge window closes).

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by bji9jhff » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 11:44 PM UTC

Is it a kind of computer-assisted Nomic [0]?

0: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by flyrain » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

I guess this is one sign that coding is drifting to an art, given the LLM is invading.

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by oooyay » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC

flyrain wrote: post #58

I guess this is one sign that coding is drifting to an art, given the LLM is invading.

A lot of engineering disciplines are a mixture of math, art, and science. Programming was no different, but I do think some people built up an identity that reinforced a difference that wasn't there to begin with.

Re: Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

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Post by aalimov_ » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 12:32 AM UTC

stingraycharles wrote: post #47

Am I the only one who's noticing that this "open chaos" project's most voted PRs are to add structure to the project (e.g., calculate +1/-1, etc.)? I guess people just desire a certain amount of structure to their chaos :)

“Convenient chaos”