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Simple is the opposite of complex; the opposite of hard is easy. They are orthogonal. Chess is simple and hard. Go is simpler and harder than chess.

Program optimization problems are less simple than both, but still simpler than free-form CRUD apps with fuzzy, open ended acceptance criteria. It would stand to reason an autonomous agent would do well at mathematically challenging problems with bounded search space and automatically testable and quantifiable output.

(Not GP but I assume that's what they were getting at)



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