Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding
by torginus on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:12AM
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Even if AI will not achieve the ability to perform at this level on its own, it clearly is going to be an enormous force multiplier, allowing highly skilled devs to tackle huge projects more or less on their own.
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Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding
by thesz on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:57AM
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Skilled devs compress, not generate (expand).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w
The "discoverer" of APL tried to express as many problems as he could with his notation. First he found that notation expands and after some more expansion he found that it began shrinking.
The same goes to Forth, which provides means for a Sequitur-compressed [1] representation of a program.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequitur_algorithm
Myself, I always strive to delete some code or replace some code with shorter version. First, to better understand it, second, to return back and read less.