Alan Kay has talked about this for years. Software right now is relatively brittle — like clockwork. One gear breaks and the whole thing can break. Alan always

Alan Kay has talked about this for years. Software right now is relatively brittle — like clockwork. One gear breaks and the whole thing can break. Alan always contrasted this with biological systems which constantly have things breaking but are also constantly healing, often across several orders of magnitude of size. Bret Victor also mentioned this in his talk "The Future of Programming" — link to specific time here: https://youtu.be/IGMiCo2Ntsc?t=582 https://youtu.be/IGMiCo2Ntsc?t=582