muddi [he/him]

There are automations. You can even add git hooks iirc. Mostly I find the lint and other code quality integrations nice to have in the IDE, since the inline results allow me to navigate directly to the code

Diffing is a lot easier too

Nitpicking can be automated by a linter, then reviews can actually sit back and review more important things like high-level design and scalability

as if peer reviews could actually spot bugs that tests can't catch

There can't be bugs if there are no tests to catch them! Ofc you can also automate test coverage standards. But PRs are sometimes the only way to catch bugs, even and especially with senior devs in my experience bc they are lazy and will skip writing tests, or write useless or bare minimum tests just to check off code standards and merge on ahead

That is not at all what this is like, completely ignorant metaphor

Imagine someone addicted to eating their poop. Perhaps they are reforming their ways, and for some time they take half measures like eating smelly chili. Eventually they realize their unhealthy fixation isn’t really overcome by this, so they move onto food that doesn’t resemble poop, like a salad maybe

Great point! Have you seen the documentary Star Wars btw? They have some interesting counterpoints on the use of violence against one’s oppressors in the interest of obtaining freedom from said oppressors.

I think it would be limited to arithmetic and calculus due to limited use case of those eras, and also limited by the speed of computation on the substrate — electronics or alternatives like photonics are pretty quick to function, almost instantaneous to human perception, but something like mechanical or fluid mechanisms are observably slow

I think there would be different levels of “music” like simple patterns of tones, then melodies, polyphony, symphony, etc. Various schools of magic as many as there are musical traditions and scales or the equivalent in each tradition. Perhaps even culture develops to match with this new type of “music” as a type of ritual performance, like sacred dances and ritual musical dramas.

There is a series called the Book of the Stars I believe, they had an interesting magic system. The constellations of the world formed letters which formed an alphabet, and you spell words with them. There were alternative forms of magic too where one weaves together many syllables into a long droning recitation or something, I forget exactly. But that is kind of what I’m envisioning with the “levels” building upon each other