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- To counter AI effects, disconnect from the internet as much as possible and distill human knowledge, tools, and processes for small groups to understand and modify.
- The author has lived this philosophy for three years, building a custom editor, build system, and documentation language from scratch using Lua.
- Corporate software work is drudgery worsened by reviewing AI output; having a personal project with simple, human tools provides joy and sanity.
- Keep tools human-scale, avoid unnecessary complexity, and build as if you are the only user.
- Example: the author's pure-Lua editor has zero latency, handles million-line files with minimal memory overhead.
- This blog announces the pre-alpha era of Civstack, inviting contributions and discussion.