The Blub Paradox and the Mother Cat Kata: Engineering Deterministic Workflows

In this entry, I trace the continuum between high-level language abstractions—starting from Paul Graham's Blub Paradox and Lisp—and the practical mechanics of building deterministic AI tooling. I explore how the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) provides a blueprint for non-conflicting namespaces and demonstrate the 'Mother Cat Kata', a human-in-the-loop write barrier that keeps automated agents…