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Are guardrails, CI/CD, to make code at least compile-able and require minimal quality standards also possible to change via PR or managed somewhere else? With this possibility, it might went into oblivion indeed!

confused, what is this and what’s going on exactly?

Twitch plays Github?

I guess this is one sign that coding is drifting to an art, given the LLM is invading.

When I used to play Screeps[1], a MMO strategy game where you programmed to control your units and buildings, a group of us setup a player that was managed in this exact way called Quorum[2].

If anyone wants to run their own project in this way I open sourced the code to do so under the GitConsensus[3] project. There's a Github App (which may not still work, but if there's interest I'll restart it) and a "run it yourself" python library and CLI you can run from Github Actions[4].

1. https://screeps.com/

2. https://github.com/ScreepsQuorum/screeps-quorum

3. https://www.gitconsensus.com/

4. https://pypi.org/project/gitconsensus/

Is it a kind of computer-assisted Nomic [0]?

0: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

I don't get the title. Do I understand correctly this is basically "Twitch plays Github" without Twitch?

This is cool, but once a week seems a little slow

Firefox warns of a security threat when I visit the site.

This is a very interesting experiment where I hope the metamorphosis is more like a butterfly than Kafka.

Am I the only one who's noticing that this "open chaos" project's most voted PRs are to add structure to the project (e.g., calculate +1/-1, etc.)?

I guess people just desire a certain amount of structure to their chaos :)

Really interesting. I wonder if something good will come out of it. It feels like twitch plays pomemon.

Excited to see how this plays out, I made something similar a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351286

Reading through the comments, it’s remarkable how many of us have had the same idea at some point

Beautifully executed

I'd expect even more chaos, let an LLM build the features and people vote.

Should votes get invalidated after major change in the ongoing PR?

The end product is... just the website?

I feel like I'm missing something.

They should automate reading hacker news comments and generating PRs to address them

> The website IS the repo. The repo IS the website. I wonder if we get something productive by end of 2026 from this repo. Who knows, maybe we solve AGI

Cool social experiment. It's interesting how narrow the scope of all top voted PRs are: change this or that detail in the voting (daily, count down votes etc), or make it more efficient (rust).

I wonder if this has the potential to build a "community" that will take this into a completely different direction, or if it will neatly stay within the initial boundaries.

Sorry to be a party pooper I just don’t get the point.

You know it’s kinda like a lottery the more I read it lol! If the repo got super popular and had lots of traffic say.

Genius.