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.