Personally I found the article informative and well-written. I had been wondering for a while why Claude Code didn't more aggressively use sub-agents to split work, and it wasn't obvious to me (I don't build agents for a living).

I've done a lot of Erlang and I don't see the relation? Supervisors are an error isolation tool, they don't perform the work, break it down, combine results, or act as a communication channel. It's kind of the point that supervisors don't do much so they can be trusted to be reliable.

If you dereference it you get back an integer, not a variable. A variable is a name that identifies a value; the pointer points to the value, not to the name.

There's a free tier, and various paid tiers: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

That's a pointer to an integer.

> There, the reference to `i` is being mutated.

That's rebinding. Mutation is when you change the state of an object. Variables are not objects. You can't have a reference (aka pointer) pointing to a variable.

It's a wide field so it depends on the specialization. I did computer engineering 15+ years ago and we never touched SQL, but I think the software engineering people did have a class on it.

I think you're confusing mutation and variable reassignment?

I recommend https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html starting from "if my configuration file is corrupted, restarting won't fix anything". The tl;dr is it helps with transient bugs.

> Gary Marcus always, always says AI doesn't actually work - it's his whole thing. If he's posted a correct argument it's a coincidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278811

I think you're absolutely right about this being a wider problem though.

Japan doesn't have a housing crisis. I'm in a great location in Tokyo, the rent is under $750/month, and it's been the same for the decade+ I've been in this specific place.

If there's a problem, it's too many empty homes in aging rural areas. Cities are doing just fine, even with a growing population in Tokyo.

The way Erlang does it is to use buckets so it looks like a single queue to the user code but really is more like multiple queues behind the scene. Scales extremely well. It's certainly not "just moving a pointer to a piece of shared memory" though...

https://www.erlang.org/blog/parallel-signal-sending-optimiza...

Do you also go to police officers and tell them how much more they'd enjoy being a firefighter?

The result is encrypted. It's useful to the key holder, not to the party doing the computation.

> As the invasion enters a fourth summer, drones are currently thought to account for around 70 percent of all Russian and Ukrainian battlefield casualties.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-...