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Ask HN: Code Generation – Infinite Monkey Theorem or SWE of the Future?

The infinite monkey theorem suggests that a monkey typing randomly on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [1]The argument is that a monkey’s keystrokes are random and independent, so, if a keyboard has 50 keys, the probability of typing any letter is 1/50. Multiply those probabilities together and...

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