• I don’t think the primary counterargument is tech progression, I think the primary counterargument is that decoherence as defined here, and tech debt in general, are usually a function of humans balancing work time vs deliverable demand (for coding), and making tradeoffs like those adhoc patches vs rebuilds-to-maintain-coherence… but that is not intrinsic to coding, and is much less relevant to an agent swarm who could feasibly decide that a full rebuild using the lessons gleaned about design, but without the actual code debt, is warranted and possible within a short time window.

    If a cyclical process of n iterative updates > rebuild back to coherence > n iterative updates > rebuild back to coherence etc is used, you could mitigate the exponential loss of coherence, provided you set some kind of baseline for what rebuilds produce.

  • Really good, it put into words an outline of an idea I had in the back of my brain. Probably the only original, intelligent article written about AI recently.

  • This is interesting but oddly difficult to parse, ironically the writing style has LLM vibes with all the fluffy generic statements and overall lack of density.

    • it’s a really dense subject, it’s okay to just admit it’s difficult to read, you don’t have to accuse it of LLM usage lol