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The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

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The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

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Small team debugging spacecraft software remotely; interesting resilience story with limited management content.

Ron Garret tells the story of the Remote Agent Experiment on NASA's Deep Space 1, where autonomous software controlled a spacecraft in 1999. He describes debugging Lisp code remotely from millions of miles away.

Topics: Failure, safety & learning orgs, Innovation & creativity

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