It’s a good point that there are trade-offs, and highly optimized programs, even if they perform a simple function, are hard to understand without “being inside” one. That’s one reason I linked a post about an even simpler and well understood potentially “agentic” system, the Game of Life, though it focuses on a different angle, not “let’s see what it takes to design a simple agent in this game”.
It’s a good point that there are trade-offs, and highly optimized programs, even if they perform a simple function, are hard to understand without “being inside” one. That’s one reason I linked a post about an even simpler and well understood potentially “agentic” system, the Game of Life, though it focuses on a different angle, not “let’s see what it takes to design a simple agent in this game”.