http://programmer.ie/tags/repair/ Recent content in Repair on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:18:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/11-the-crystal/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:18:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/11-the-crystal/ <p>We have spent ten chapters making the question harder.</p> <p>Then we made one important decision.</p> <p>We are not going to build an animal.</p> <p>We are not going to start with:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>body </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>energy </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>hunger </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>genome </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>reproduction </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>age </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>death </span></span></code></pre></div><p>and hope that enough biological nouns eventually add up to life.</p> <p>Instead we are going to begin from the digital substrate.</p> <p>Remove almost everything.<br> Introduce one capability.<br> Then discover what becomes necessary.</p> <p>Our first capability is:</p>