[canopi]

I still don't understand how memes work. The approach itself in this case is trivial, I think it's easy to argue that there are 10s of similar algorithms for using AI coding agents that would result in very similar results. However somehow the weird name + an initial cabal made this into a meme.

[dtagames]

Richard Dawkins, who invented the term, talks about them in his (terrific) book, The Selfish Gene. Like the genes for which they're named, random mutations happen in cultural artifacts (or mutations are introduced) and some are wildly successful while others never gain traction.