the garden of knowledge

watching an llm read 10,000 lines of code in seconds changed everything for me

recently, i've been thinking...

code is just one type of logical structure. so is scientific knowledge. history. philosophy. even poetry has patterns.

we've unleashed llms on code because developers built these tools to solve their own problems first. and code is their native tongue - formal, structured, unambiguous.

but imagine:

darwin's notebooks in markdown

every physics paper, queryable

philosophy as functions

an llm can hold ten thousand years of human thought in its "head" at once. see patterns no human ever could.

we taught agents to read, interact and act on our code

all other forms of human knowledge are just... waiting

waiting for us to do the same that we did with code

connections across centuries of thought - suddenly visible

we just need to collect that knowledge in markdown

put it in a repo

unleash an agent on it

but here's what they don't yet have:

the taste to know which connections matter

the wisdom to see which questions are worth asking

the human spark that says "explore this direction"

we plant the seeds

they grow the gardens we couldn't imagine