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is his son named Diff

🤔 I wonder if diff -Naur was named after him

I feel like over the years, we've sort of given up documenting our mental models of code and just accepted that everyone who reads the code builds their own model from scratch.

Now, with vibe coding we don't even do that. The agent is often the only one with a mental model of the code, and it throws it away after each session.

Only document. Double down on documents. And insist on them being faithful. The code coming with a perfect textbook intro to it, and the code perfectly implementing this textbook.