alt Hacker News> some stable fitness function
The participants could always vote to add a test harness and CI/CD to vet pull requests against.
> some stable fitness function
The participants could always vote to add a test harness and CI/CD to vet pull requests against.
That has nothing to do with a stable fitness function ... an external set of factors that determine which changes allow offspring to survive. This thing doesn't have offspring (or always has exactly one offspring and then the parent dies) and it survives until the whole thing collapses.
And I think they already have what you describe or something like it ... PRs have to build and survive CI.