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jiballast Saturday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

It really can't for numerous reasons, one of them being that PRs have to be fairly low effort, and this will be even more so if the popular "merge daily" PR is voted in. People talk about this "evolving", but it's nothing like biological evolution or genetic algorithms. It's just a linear sequence of small changes, and without either planning and central authority or some stable fitness function (the ecological environment in biological evolution) the changes are directionless.


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fc417fc802yesterday at 2:08 AM

> some stable fitness function

The participants could always vote to add a test harness and CI/CD to vet pull requests against.

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