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We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

If they had released the code, critics would likely be scouring it for bugs and incoherence – which at 1m loc, it almost certainly has. Sensible move on their part – keeps the discussion on the ideas, and saves them having to own something they like don't want to maintain for general audience.

I'm unclear on how every single installation of this having its very own set of bespoke, inevitable bugs is an improvement over a model where you find a bug and you release a patch for that bug.

It's an improvement in that they aren't responsible.