Morg doesn't seem to be a word in English (though it is in Irish!), but it sounds like it should be.

This is one aspect of AI I will miss, if we ever figure out how to make it go away. The delightful chaos. It invented a word here, without even meaning to.

For example, I vibe coded a QWOP clone the other day, and instead of working human legs, it gave me helicopter legs. You can't walk, but if you mash the keyboard, your legs function as a helicopter and you can fly through the sky.

That obviously wasn't intentional! But it was wonderful. I fear that in a few years, AI will be good enough to give me legs that don't fly like a helicopter. I think we will have lost something special at that point.

When I program manually, I am very good at programming bugs. If I'm trying to make something reliable, that's terrible. But if I'm trying to make a computer do something nobody even realized it can do... making it do things you weren't expecting is the only reliable way to do that.

So I've been working on a way to reintroduce bugs mechanically, by mutating the AST. The fundamental idea is sound -- most of my bugs come from "stuff I obviously meant to type, but didn't" -- but it needs a bit more work. Right now it just produces nonsense even I wouldn't come up with :)

I currently have "mess up the file". The next 2 phases would be "in a way so that it still compiles", and "in a way so that it doesn't (immediately) crash at runtime", (since the whole point is "it still runs, but it does something weird!"). More research needed :)