A library with no code

A library with no code? That’s what whenwords is doing: Install.md is simple, “drop this spec into claude, codex, whatever”. Comes with spec.md, tests.md, and install.md.

Reminds me of Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep — Vinge imagined (for reasons important in the book) that knowledge persisted as spec, while implementation was entirely local.

If you’re a fan of the book, please chime in — rereading some passages leaves me in awe of the sci fi future we’ve arrived at:

“The archive informed the automation. Data structures were built, recipes followed… Nodes were added, modified by other recipes.”

“There are unnumbered recipes for safely taking advantage of the Transcend. Of course they can’t be effectively examined except in the Transcend. And run on devices of their own description, the recipes themselves become sentient.”

“They ran across this recipe advertising wondrous treasure… No doubt the recipe was a series of more or less intelligible steps with a clear takeoff point.”

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