Primitive archeology is a process of abducting shared building blocks out of a working platform.

· Bits and Bobs 7/27/26
  • Primitive archeology is a process of abducting shared building blocks out of a working platform.
    • Those abducted building blocks then give leverage to everything built on top, unlocking compounding value.
    • It used to be exceptionally expensive–it required careful study by an engineer with deep experience in platforms and that particular codebase.
      • It used to require a "legendary engineer for months" level of effort.
    • Fable-class models are extremely good at it if given the right prompts.
    • This should enable the emergence of auto-abducting platforms that automatically unlock leverage.
    • Yes, it's probably agents writing things on top of the platform, too.
    • But it takes time and effort/tokens for humans or agents to write code.
    • The more that you can make it so things can take for granted solutions others have already built, the more leverage you unlock per unit effort/token.