Talks with Brian Troutwine about His Code Mesh Talk
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Argues that specific metaphors change what gets built and how it’s reasoned about: modeling replication as gossip-as-epidemic led to epidemiological math that flips explanations into controllable spread, while calling a concept functor vs map shifts whether category theory or intuition guides design; points to real tooling consequences from JVM reordering and undefined behavior where compiler optimizations invalidate linear-code assumptions; uses math, category theory, and runtime examples to show when metaphors help or mislead.
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