Problems
Why this site exists, what it's for, and what to expect. A short editorial frame.
This site is for the questions that are getting answered by default, in code, before anyone has agreed they were the questions.
There is a particular kind of decision that compounds quickly and is hard to reverse — the kind made in the shape of an API surface, the wording of a protocol, the choice of who holds what in their database. Decisions that look like engineering and turn out to be the floor everything else gets built on. Most of them get made before they are even named.
This site is an attempt to name a few. To articulate what is actually being decided, what the alternatives are, why the default is unlikely to be the answer we would consciously choose, and what would have to be true for a different answer to ship.
Most pieces here will be about infrastructure. Data ownership, agent rails, the substrate underneath an economy that is about to start moving differently. Some pieces will not — when a question this scale shows up in physics, or in cosmology, or in the structure of a tool you use every day, it is the same kind of thinking, and it belongs here too.
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— Matt de Courcelle