Add a learning path through the pattern collection - #51
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| ## The story in one paragraph | ||
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| You've been handed a brilliant, absurdly well-read colleague who has **no memory**, **limited attention**, **rolls dice on every answer**, **never says no**, and **you can't see what it's thinking**. The whole collection is the story of compensating for those five facts, in escalating scope: first you manage its *memory*, then its *attention*, then you learn to *verify* everything and even exploit the dice, then you turn the one-way command channel into a *dialogue*, meet it in its native *medium*, replace fragile instructions with *mechanisms*, and finally scale from one session to *systems of agents that improve themselves*. Every obstacle is one of the five facts showing up; every anti-pattern is a natural-but-wrong reaction to it; every pattern is the working counter-move. |
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Fix: "you can't see what they're thinking" (and other instances of "it's" i this paragraph.
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| You've been handed a brilliant, absurdly well-read colleague who has **no memory**, **limited attention**, **rolls dice on every answer**, **never says no**, and **you can't see what it's thinking**. The whole collection is the story of compensating for those five facts, in escalating scope: first you manage its *memory*, then its *attention*, then you learn to *verify* everything and even exploit the dice, then you turn the one-way command channel into a *dialogue*, meet it in its native *medium*, replace fragile instructions with *mechanisms*, and finally scale from one session to *systems of agents that improve themselves*. Every obstacle is one of the five facts showing up; every anti-pattern is a natural-but-wrong reaction to it; every pattern is the working counter-move. | ||
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| **Legend:** ⛰ obstacle (the terrain — can't be removed) · ⚠️ anti-pattern (the wrong turn) · 🧩 pattern (the move) · ↳ special case / composition marker |
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I'd perhaps change "the wrong turn" to "the mis-step", and "the move" to "the trodden path"?
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| - ⛰ Limited Focus — attention dilutes or fixates | ||
| - ⚠️ Distracted Agent — one agent for everything; rules silently ignored | ||
| - ⚠️ Obsess Over Rules — piling on rules makes each one weaker |
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Refers forward to "Refinement Loop" pattern
| *It fabricates confidently and declares victory early. Never let output go unverified — and make verification cheap enough that you don't skip it.* | ||
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| - ⛰ Hallucinations — it invents APIs (mercifully self-revealing in code) | ||
| - ⚠️ Perfect Recall Fallacy — expecting it to remember library details from training |
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Forward reference to "Playgrounds" pattern. (Could be mitigated if this pattern talked about letting LLMs/Agents "Play" which then sets up "Playgrounds" perfectly...
| - ⛰ Solution Fixation — first plausible hypothesis becomes "the answer" | ||
| - 🧩 **Feedback Loop** — give it a success signal and permission to iterate until green | ||
| - ⛰ Keeping Up — it generates faster than you can review | ||
| - ⚠️ Flying Blind — the surrender: skip review, vibe-code, understand nothing |
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Forward reference to "Active Partner" Pattern
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A narrative organization of the whole collection into 12 chapters, plus the duplicate/special-case analysis behind it. Extends Lada's 27-station semantic map to every document.
Two things to decide before this leaves draft:
learning_path.htmlis a rendered view of the same content. Nothing else in the repo ships a standalone HTML file, so it may not belong here — happy to drop it and keep only the markdown.learning_path_map.svgis not included: it disappeared from the working tree before I could commit it.