Less Cinema, More Paperwork
The real historical analogy: writing hardening into administration, governance, and protocol
Tag: Musings
Consequential, Not Just Useful
When MCP connects models to permissions, words become actions
AI, Language, and Protocols
From Prompt to Protocol Stack
Layers for humans, agents, tools, and infrastructure around the chat box
Hidden Language Beneath English?
Soft prompts, steering vectors, and machine-native control beyond prose
Prompting Is Not Conversation
specification-writing for a probabilistic component that still looks like chat
Freedom Creates Protocol
Why natural language pushes formalism upstairs into templates and contracts
The Cost of Unclear Interfaces
Ambiguity as a compounding reliability tax
Maintenance Is a Creative Act
Clarity Is an Operational Advantage
The Beauty of Plain Text
Durability, diffs, and mechanical sympathy with the machine