“We’re having some problems with distributed systems that we’ve sold to customers.” “Which ones?” “Well, PREDPREY.” “That’s one of the old ones,” I said. “Who sold that?” PREDPREY was a system we’d designed over a year ago. Like most of our programs, it had been based on biological models. PREDPREY was a goal-seeking program based on predator/prey dynamics. But it was extremely simple in its structure. “Well, Xymos wanted something very simple,” Tim said. “You sold PREDPREY to Xymos?” “Right. Licensed, actually. With a contract to support it. That’s driving us crazy.” “Why?” “It isn’t working
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I love all the setup this book has, the "losing sight of its goal" is going to be overfixed so it starts actively targeting things, isn't it
