The Bitter Lesson for Software - by Uzay
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towards a world of soft agent-software
This post (lightly modified), was cowritten with Rowan for Fulcrum, and edited by Kaivu. I am posting it here because I think this pattern is very important, and even if people believe it they often do not take it seriously enough, or remind themselves of the heuristic and question what man-made structures really earn their keep. Software encodes information flows. An ERP system, for instance, takes procurement and locks it into a specific sequence of purchase orders, approval routing, invoice matching, and payment release. Git takes multiple people changing code and imposes a protocol of…
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