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title: "Notes from Underground: Software Tardigrades"
author: "Fogus"
date: "2024.03.08"
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– [Cryptobiosis](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11290443/) is a peculiar state of biological organization

– [Automatic bug repair](http://news.mit.edu/2015/automatic-code-bug-repair-0629) and LLMs

– [Tardigrades and foreign DNA](http://uncnews.unc.edu/2015/11/23/a-huge-chunk-of-a-tardigrades-genome-comes-from-foreign-dna/)

– Sussman’s “[Evolvability and Robust Design](https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/sussmantlk.html)” and [the Art of the Propagator](https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44215). Also look at Sussman and Hanson’s book [Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner](https://www.amazon.com/Software-Design-Flexibility-Programming-Yourself/dp/0262045494?tag=fogus-20).

– [Deep Specification](http://www.csail.mit.edu/chlipala_10_million_NSF_grant)

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