Explanation

Discussion of design choices, principles and trade-offs. Read these to understand why comma is shaped the way it is.

• Design principles — the six rules that govern command design
• The critic loop — why polish patches rather than redrafts
• Deterministic vs. LLM — when to use each
• Why IWE for note persistence — why we don’t manage notes ourselves
• Appendix: NLP concepts behind analyze — field guide to the linguistic and statistical ideas the analyze commands implement

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Table of contents

• Design principles
• The critic loop
• Deterministic vs. LLM
• Why IWE for note persistence
• Appendix: NLP concepts behind analyze