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Lerctoday at 10:09 AM0 repliesview on HN

There are so many of these projects to wrangle AIs I think we might need an AI to go through, analysing each and amalgamating the good bits.

It makes me think of MakeFiles.

Make is sufficiently bad that everyone who has used it has considered writing a better way to do it. A good percentage of those people have done so.

On the other hand, make is also not so sufficiently bad that it cannot do its job. The choice becomes picking the thing that everyone has or one of the many many alternatives that proclaim their strengths and leave their weaknesses lurking to bite when they are least expected.

No single replacement to make dominates, and make lives on. I wonder if AI management is on a similar path.