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so umm what's the flocking equivalent for LLM agents?

extremely powerful pattern

this but for tweets

Analogy: Lego has a single mechanism of composition, the dot. This means any lego piece can be composed with any other lego piece. A maximally broad combinatorial space. If there were no constraints on the dot, pieces wouldn’t click together. The space of possible combinations would be constrained.

busytown/docs/ref at main · gordonbrander/busytown Like gastown, but littler and cuter. Multi-agent swarm coordinated over a SQLite queue. - gordonbrander/busytown

Here ya go! I elicited these from Claude, then gave them a quick once-over. So they're not hand-crafted, but they do the job. github.com/gordonbrande...

GitHub - gordonbrander/busytown: Like gastown, but littler and cuter. Multi-agent swarm coordinated over a SQLite queue. Like gastown, but littler and cuter. Multi-agent swarm coordinated over a SQLite queue. - GitHub - gordonbrander/busytown: Like gastown, but littler and cuter. Multi-agent swarm coordinated over a...

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The fun thing for me is that when I started exploring the internet the terminal was all there was. Telnet, FTP, gopher, usenet, etc! It was a natural extension from BBS-land and it really felt limitless. Being back in the terminal feels like returning to a magical era ripe with possibility.

"Beneficent-spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once" -- Jane Jacobs

I mean open-ended in the evolutionary sense. Terminals are *constrained*. So are Lego dots (they can't be just any shape). So is DNA (basepairs can only be 4 things). Constraints are prerequisite to open-endedness.

Claude trick: check in markdown containing the design philosophies of great engineers. Then, when I'm chatting with Claude I can @docs/ref/sussman-sicp.md to bring in Gerald Sussman or Joe Armstrong or Rich Hickey's POV.

I can see the future of software engineering, and it looks like Dwarf Fortress

In my ideal world, everything spits out ndjson events, and TUI is a command that consumes those events:

$ thing-doer | dashboard

In the Beginning... Was the Command Line

Web Components 😈

Also TUI is perfect for vibe coding because you don't have to worry about scaling or auth or hosting... if it runs, you're done.

Why is the AI revolution happening on the command line first? Because the terminal is still the most open-ended general-purpose computing platform available.

Unix Philosophy is All You Need.

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Tools to get there (running list)

- Observability: logging, telemetry.
- Testing: CI, unit tests, linting, fuzzing…
- Automated code review: create selection pressures for quality, not just quantity.
- Modularity: put slop in a black box, define clear interfaces and strong boundaries.

What else?

Going fast with AI is less about generating more code. It’s more about gardening a working system whose complexity scales linearly as it grows.

Opus solved something that would have been a 3 day bug hunt. Paste in the logs, let Claude Code rip…

Realizing that detailed logging is critical for going fast with AI.

nothing ever happens
nothing ever happens
then
everything everywhere all at once

Read, write and bash is all you need

We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it: it's read, write and bash

follow your bliss man

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I feel like the exocortex is finally here bsky.app/profile/gord...

feels like the first chapter of accelerando

ASI is when elisp scripts YOU.

my brain has been so cooked by years computers being literal-minded, that it is hard to fathom what you can do with a computer that has common sense

As I have been saying… everyone is sleeping on Deno. Easy sandboxed agents!