- Frameworks are like a master carpenter's jigs: they remember which specific shape matters, unlike AI that can generate any shape but lacks context.
- Pidgin languages emerge as simplified bridges between speakers of different languages for trade, and when children grow up speaking them, they become full creole languages.
- Similarly, frameworks like Rails and React are 'creoles' that AI models understand natively, enabling efficient communication.
- Even when AI can write any code, frameworks remain essential for shared vocabulary among humans, AIs, and future developers.
- Internal or obscure frameworks are like pidgins—AI hasn't seen them, so we must teach them each time, often with limited success.
- The author's VSM framework explores building frameworks that can explain themselves, using meta-tools and CLI generators to facilitate pidgin conversations with AI.
- Senior developers get the most from AI coding assistants because they share a creole language with the AI, while beginners get pidgin and poorer results.
- Frameworks may evolve into self-aware participants that teach their own idioms, becoming active translators rather than static code.
- All frameworks start as pidgins; the ones that become widespread become creoles that shape how AI thinks and dreams.