Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvisational jazz to engineering
summary
Claim: letting everyone edit without permission produces functioning systems fast. The group uses Flock then built a collaborative live‑coding tool called Noodle (many simultaneous cursors, weather modes, paste/pasting toggle), spawns PastorGang jams, releases music, and even publishes an academic paper. Contributions appear overnight, strange features multiply, and the original Noodle is ceremonially deleted and briefly resurrected — the process works as social prototyping under mantras like normalize sharing scrappy fiddles and let code die.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:05One head to many heads
- 18:26Live coding and jazz
- 30:50Building Noodle and jam-oriented programming
- 41:05Many heads and community
- 51:57Code death and humility
- 53:42Growing heads in software
