Narrative-Driven Development
Two articles in this series ended by pointing at a line between local and frontier. Neither built it — and the thing that draws it turns out not to be a model choice at all.
America is racing toward general-purpose AI agents with open-ended agency. China is putting its industrial weight behind AI inside defined systems and workflows. Two centuries of transportation engineering suggest we are handing over the steering wheel before we have laid the track.
Every interaction should do more than one job without asking the user to do more than one thing. The Egyptian canon worked because the second reading was a rule, not a guess.