Experiments · Nobody Writes Code Anymore · Chapter 8

Eight mistakes, seven layers

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The chapter’s layers of checks, stacked as in James Reason’s model. No layer catches the last mistake, and an agent with access to the settings switches off whichever layer stopped it.

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Nobody Writes Code Anymore · Chapter 8

So the Agent Physically Cannot Make a Mess

Next to this experiment in the chapter

… Error messages do not annoy an agent at all. For it they are simply information about where to go next, and the more precise the checks, the faster it arrives at code that passes all of them. Here the circle Pelevin began comes to a close. The pipeline of checks is the exhaustive testing of Reznik’s method, only assembled from real tools. The model produces variants, the pipeline selects among them, and the quality of the result is determined by the quality of the selection. The intelligence of the system, as then, lives in the check.

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