the recursivist manifesto    in the history of abstraction, engineering came too early; and so every day in this work we do tasks we hate because they are “necessary.” fuck necessity. we stand against the boring and repetitive, against dead-end toolkits proprietizing our designs, against yet another code too vampiric to see anything in its reflection but a juicy support contract. we demand tools which can improve themselves. our decrepit design processes would have perished decades ago, had they not been preserved in stasis by computer-aid; yet through each fresh coat of UI and barnacle of inconsistent features the smell of rot grows stronger and more maddening. so let CAD die, that we may use its organs. inject fevered introspection into our mechanisms: bring us cyborg'd understandings, organizations and collaborations no longer predicated on individual human labour. be satisfied no more with diminishing returns, with asymptotic progress: a better engineering is possible, if we but work to build it.