Le secrétaire de Fernand

Series

Encode the System

An arc moving from manifesto toward conclusion: programming is not merely writing code, it is encoding guarantees into systems.

3 parts

Part 1 · Published April 21, 2026

Build Systems, Don't Polish Prose

We still talk about code as if it were style. But code runs in the world.

Part 2 · Published May 5, 2026

Encode, Don't Imply

Why the implicit becomes fragile when humans and agents co-produce code.

Part 3 · Published June 10, 2026

Make Feedback Loops Attribute, Don't Just Detect

Why feedback loops become more powerful when code makes its system concepts explicit.

16 min read