SD-120
Naval engineering metaphor as self-organising scaffold. The Captain observes that Age of Sail naval engineering, at correct resolution with wise choices (respecting software engineering practice, e.g. Pragmatic Programmer), forms an almost self-organising layer when correctly woven into agentic process. The mechanism is naming: roles, states, signals, relationships carry compressed process information that humans navigate intuitively. This is not decoration — it is architecture. Approach: incremental, not premature. Start with naming variables. Avoid proooompt culture collapse. Falls within Weaver’s domain (process, relationship, naming as structural choice). Catalysed by viewing Master and Commander (2003, Weir) with the Captain’s father, an actual airline captain (737).
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