Add new blog post: "Configurancy: Keeping Systems Intelligible When Agents Write All the Code"#3808
Add new blog post: "Configurancy: Keeping Systems Intelligible When Agents Write All the Code"#3808KyleAMathews wants to merge 7 commits intomainfrom
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Post exploring how formal specifications become tractable when agents handle propagation. Introduces "configurancy" as the shared intelligibility layer for coordinating bounded agents (human and AI) co-evolving a system. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
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Very nice. Could also be an eg LFC talk submission? |
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| What changed isn't the principle—it's the economics. Agents can propagate spec changes through implementations at machine speed. Conformance suites verify correctness. The spec becomes the source of truth again. | ||
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Just on the image, I think it’s worth upgrading it a touch.
This is very stock art and has the floating text, which duplicates the title.
Perhaps something more TanStack reminiscent of sitting in a deck chair whilst the agents work? Or a better creative idea more aligned with the post but a bit more in our style?
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| ## The Toolkit | ||
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| We've been building [tools to make configurancy explicit](https://github.com/electric-sql/configurancy-review-toolkit): |
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Yeah I need to create it still
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I like this. I'd advocate for shorter but reading through there is not much I'd like to cu. Maybe the last couple of points in the practical artifacts and 'not everything is specifiable' which isn't adding much imo. I hope we deep dive in some of these later |
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"Conformance suites enforce all of the above. The html5lib-tests suite, protocol conformance tests—any implementation that passes meets the spec" ... "Any implementation that passes the suite implements the protocol correctly." |
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