The real historical analogy: writing hardening into administration, governance, and protocol

When MCP connects models to permissions, words become actions

Layers for humans, agents, tools, and infrastructure around the chat box

Soft prompts, steering vectors, and machine-native control beyond prose

specification-writing for a probabilistic component that still looks like chat

Why natural language pushes formalism upstairs into templates and contracts

Ambiguity as a compounding reliability tax

Durability, diffs, and mechanical sympathy with the machine