The builders at Babel made one fateful substitution: brick for stone. Uniform, manufactured, interchangeable, instead of particular, found, given. It's the same substitution spec-driven development quietly asks us to make today. And with capable AI agents smoothing over the gaps, the old warning signs disappear. Why the synoptic dream of the all-encompassing spec keeps failing, what Pentecost teaches about plural knowledge, and where brick still belongs in the work.
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