[perrygeo]

I largely agree with the premise. I was just honing in on the coding claim because the statement is so obviously wrong that it distracts from an otherwise solid post.

We should put software squarely in the "complex system" category, ie "The only way to find out is to build the software system and try to break it". Writing code may be cheap but running the software IRL is still constrained by both computational bounds and the laws of physics. Not to mention social and market dynamics.

If anything this strengthens the overall argument. "The limit is contact with reality".