Once you build a system that builds treatments for specific problems, you treat the problem and repeat as they come up. Not dying of the first cancer is better

Once you build a system that builds treatments for specific problems, you treat the problem and repeat as they come up. Not dying of the first cancer is better than dying of the first. Just because there are N cancers in the series doesn't mean the problem is impossible, it just means we haven't ever gotten past the first levels to figure out how it works. The secret to winning pacman isn't 256 separate strategies, it's a small set of strategies that fit together once you know how the game changes level to level. The author is just fixated on the fact they finished the first level AND THE WAS ANOTHER!