the-new-syntax.txt
01 Before AI, programming was a negotiation with strictness.
02 The machine had no tolerance for ambiguity.
03 A semicolon in the wrong place and everything stopped.
04 The code either ran or it did not, and if it did not, the error was yours, specific, located at a line number.
05 So programmers learned to think in a particular way: precisely, sequentially, with deep respect for the difference between what they meant and what they said.
06 They learned to hold a problem still long enough to see its actual shape.
07 To name things exactly.
08 The discipline was linguistic before anyone called it that.
09 You were learning to say what you meant, completely, in the right order, with nothing assumed.
10 The machine just made the cost of imprecision immediate and undeniable.
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12 // The machine didn't care what you meant to say.
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