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“I told you we should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!”

Monkeys typing at desks in a large factory overseen by a wealthy man A million monkeys typing on a million typewriters will eventually produce Hamlet But the typing was never actually the bottleneck.

A steampunk robot serves a martini to an elderly man in a cozy study room.

What happens when the human in the loop isn’t a subject-matter expert?

[previously: Act One: Working for the man, fighting with Claude] “Just a little more to the left…no, that’s too far!”

This post is part of a series.

[Editor’s note.

I mostly don’t talk about politics on this blog, but this issue has been bouncing around in my brain for a while.

A video of an Arduino microcontroller, driving an LED counter, on a prototyping breadboard.

Part 5: The p-Machine (intro) Previously: Intro, Running Apple Pascal on a modern Mac, The Editor, The Filesystem, Text Files, Code Files What is the p-Machine, and why is it like that?