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  1. therepanic · · focus · HN ↗
    around 4k commits in a week.

    i am not sure anyone actually understands what is going on under the hood of the project. looks like average slop.

    >> Exactly a week ago (as a joke), I started writing THC,

    you? i hope you have read at least something of what your agent wrote about the project.

    1. vintermann · · focus · HN ↗
      Edward Kmett is a very respected Haskell developer.
      1. therepanic · · focus · HN ↗
        i see, but my statement does not become false because of it. his agent pushes several commits an hour in a continuous loop, meaning this respected developer is not involved in the process at all.
        1. jerf · · focus · HN ↗
          I briefly worked with him personally. He is 1. a perfectionist and 2. equipped with the intellectual and programming firepower to not get stuck in the resulting paralysis that a lot of people get stuck in but blast through tasks that should be impossible to do at all, let alone with a high degree of quality, successfully, through sheer intellectual firepower. The end result is that he is well known for already having not just one incredible Haskell library, but a number of them.

          I can promise you he will not produce and release "slop". He would be an order of magnitude more offended at the idea than you are, I'd imagine.

          1. edwardkmett · · focus · HN ↗
            Long time no see!

            In the original commenter's defense, I _did_ let the agents I have working on this get a more than a bit test harness crazy back when I was able to use GHC itself as a behavioral oracle. That worked fine through the initial build out, but then it rushed ahead with a broken CI due to misalignment in priorities, and then kept piling fixtures on top of fixtures and didn't properly track their cross-dependencies. My work on this in the last 48 hours has mostly been about getting that part under control and stable across my target platforms so I have better bedrock to build atop.

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