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Code is just the beginning.
Interface the part humans touch Product the logic that decides what happens Data what the machine remembers Platform the machinery beneath the machinery AI the parts that guess Glue making other systems cooperate User input, probably fine Interface Rules Technical debt Edge cases Product Indexed · ordered · durable Data Prod Do not deploy on Friday Platform May hallucinate AI Payments Mail Storage Auth Glue SN 004 · Sheet 1 of 1 · cutaway User input, probably fine Interface Rules Technical debt Edge cases Product Indexed · ordered · durable Data Prod Do not deploy on Friday Platform May hallucinate AI Payments Mail Storage Auth Glue SN 004 · Sheet 1 of 1 · elevation Fig. 01, a web application with the lid off
Not to scale. Several subsystems omitted in the interest of everyone’s sanity.
Hover, tap, or tab through the six systems to open one up. The pulses are requests crossing the machine: interface to product to memory, out to somebody else’s server, and all the way back.
