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Software project's core language is shared understanding, not code

The core language of a software project transcends specific programming languages or human languages like English. Instead, it is built upon a shared understanding of the project's concepts, their boundaries, critical invariants, ownership, and the overall system architecture. This collective knowledge is often dispersed across documentation, code, code reviews, and interpersonal communication, rather than being consolidated in a single source. AI

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Software project's core language is shared understanding, not code

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    The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which

    The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one…