http://programmer.ie/tags/controls/ Recent content in Controls on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:49:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/08-now-prove-it/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:49:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/08-now-prove-it/ <p>We have accumulated a dangerous number of impressive words.</p> <p>So far we have talked about:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>emergence </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>complexity </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>entity </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>persistence </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>movement </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>robustness </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>regeneration </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>reproduction </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>inheritance </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>selection </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>adaptation </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>evolution </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>open-endedness </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>progress </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Some of those words were earned carefully.<br> Some were only provisional.<br> Some described observations.<br> Some described mechanisms.<br> Some described measurements.<br> Some described aspirations.<br> And some may eventually turn out not to be useful at all.</p> <p>That is exactly how a project like this gets into trouble.</p>