Crows, Moths, and Makefiles: How 300 Megabytes of Crow DNA Explains Why a 20-Kilobyte Scar File Outsmarts a Terabyte LLM
Why can a New Caledonian crow bend a piece of wire into a hook on the first try—when no crow ancestor ever saw wire in nature—while a trillion-parameter LLM flies straight into the same 3 AM production bug zapper? Because evolution gave the crow a 20-kilobyte Makefile , and we gave the LLM a moth's…
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- 2026-11-05 00:02 · DEV Community — AI
Crows, Moths, and Makefiles: How 300 Megabytes of Crow DNA Explains Why a 20-Kilobyte Scar File Outsmarts a Terabyte LLM