Posts tagged: tooling
The Entropy Collapse Thesis — Why One Tool, Why Clojure, Why LLMs as Compiler
One engineer's argument for minimizing cognitive entropy by collapsing the toolchain into the smallest possible surface area — Clojure/Babashka as the substrate, LLMs as the compiler, and why inheritance is a design violation.
Building a Local Mermaid Viewer With the LLM That Can't Draw
Yesterday I wrote about why LLMs repeatedly fail at Mermaid syntax. Today I used one to build a zero-dependency, offline-first Mermaid viewer — and it broke the diagram three times before getting it right.