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Mar 7, 2026 at 17:18
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Agentic programming workflows rather remind me of genetic programming. The agent has a validation step that looks like a fitness function, and both run iterative trials.

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Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain. I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!
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I enjoyed this article about personal project programming, but I particularly liked this definition: "Production code has a phone number to call when it breaks"
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Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable. The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.
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