Re the talk: it's unfortunately one of the Haskell Exchange talks that got pulled from the internet when the organizer, SkillsMatter, imploded. The Haskell Foun

Re the talk: it's unfortunately one of the Haskell Exchange talks that got pulled from the internet when the organizer, SkillsMatter, imploded. The Haskell Foundation is trying to revive and reupload those recordings, but my particular one isn't back on YouTube yet. But here's at least the slide deck: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DjfhdeFW-qCCSlJUv_XwYA0swZCuoLS1 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DjfhdeFW-qCCSlJUv_Xw... I agree using applicatives helps somewhat, it basically minimizes your usage of bind. Hypothesis works around this (and gets a bind that shrinks nicely) by recording those choices into (in principle) a flat list, and shrinking that. So your shrinker can work on both "before the bound fn" and "after it" at the same time, but the result might be something that the generator can't parse back into a value.