So technically speaking, even coding harnesses like Claude and the like are just one simple instruction:

1. Do this instruction (instruction #1, while a halting state is not fulfilled (for example, 50 iterations have not been fulfilled)).

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Imagine that, even the coding harness is commodified lol. It's truly just one instruction. Woah. So there is no real objectively good coding harness, all placebo.

Keep doing it until ...

Which describes a lot of my career. I was this machine once, and many times, many people told me to keep working on it, usually because .... what else can they tell me? I'm the machine, they are the prompter. They just prompt prompt prompt, like a slave master.

So if an entire universe of software got built by masters that said keep working on it, then in effect, they figured out the ultimate algorithm:

The loop:

1. Procure something that will work for you

2. Tell it how it should work for you

3. Tell it to go back to step 2.

Which is master and slave. So that is the final algorithm.

Edit:

P.S:

"Software is now clay on the pottery wheel and if something isn’t right then i just throw it back on the wheel to address items that need resolving."

The author stole this concept from someone on HN, heh.