A dark factory runs with the lights off. No people, robots feeding themselves material all night. Now picture that same building, but what comes off the line is software.

A dark factory runs with the lights off. No people, robots feeding themselves material all night. Now picture that same building, but what comes off the line is software.
A harness still works in turns. You prompt, it grinds for hours, it comes back. In a dark factory that whole loop is one Lego block, and big brains are building the rest right now.
"some seeds need fire to grow" ~from Dark Matter by Kathe Koja