Comment by mccoyb
15 hours ago
Here's a separate, optimistic comment about Yegge and Huntley: they are obviously on the right track.
In a recent video about Loom (Huntley's orchestration tool), Huntley comments:
"I've got a single goal and that is autonomous evolutionary software and figuring out what's needed to be there."
which is extremely interesting and sounds like great fun.
When you take these ideas seriously, if the agents get better (by hook and crook or RLVR) -- you can see the implications: "grad student descent" on whatever piece of software you want. RAG over ideas, A/B testing of anything, endless looping, moving software.
It's a nightmare for the model of software development and human organization which is "productive" today, but an extremely compelling vision for those dabbling in the alternative.
yes, and Yegge + Huntley are doing it in an fun and creative way, breaking rules that make folks really mad and huffy puffy. this is a renaissance to those who can see it, those who drink the koolaid willingly, because it makes you trip balls and come up with crazy ideas... just like Hypercard...
why do we drink it? because its awesome and makes software 100X more FUN than it used to be. what yegge + huntley are doing is intensely creative. they are having FUN. and i am have FUN!!!!!