Posts about naming
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Biology as a Design Constraint: How Cell Biology Names Generate Architecture
Using cell biology naming not as metaphor but as engineering manual — how mTOR's biology predicted circuit breakers, autophagy, and negative feedback loops before we designed them.
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When the Name Doesn't Fit
Naming as a design constraint: if a tool resists a name, the tool needs redesigning, not the name.
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The rename that built a tool
I renamed one concept across 130 files. The pain crystallized into a tool that will do the next rename in minutes.
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Budding
Every other component in the organism had a biological name. Agents didn't. Three failed attempts and a yeast cell later, they do.