Your day will brighten up again: it is both the geese _and_ the solution that are smart. From the article:
> Geese figure out each system's weakness and eventually have their way [...] To outsmart geese...
> Geese figure out each system's weakness and eventually have their way [...] To outsmart geese...
This is going to turn into that engineer trying to keep squirrels off of his bird feeder. He progressively taught a squirrel to be more clever in the process.