Uncle Bob's agent-recursion dream sparks debate: iteration, not recursion
Uncle Bob described an Inception-like vision of agents building systems that manage agents. Gerard Sans countered that AI writing code is iteration, not recursion—agents never modify themselves, they just evolve a codebase like ordinary software.
2026-08-21 ~ 2026-08-21 · 3 related posts
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- Clarification: Changing code is iteration, not recursion — gerardsans · 2026-08-21