You've Been Constraint-Solving All Along

Posted on May 11, 2026 There’s a pattern which shows up everywhere in programming, often disguised as something else. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I don’t think it has a single name. But I can give many examples! The pattern is, in an abstract sense: Generation : Take an input dataset and apply a function to project it into a different shape Restriction : Write another function which…