Prompt·Architecture and hidden complexity·A02
Meaning drift across the stack
Shows where one word (a task, a fund, a run) means slightly different things in different parts of the app.
Prompt
Trace the same business concept across the entire stack. Find places where its meaning, representation, or validation changes between the UI, API, database, and background jobs.
- What it returns
- One table per concept: layer, type or column, validation rule, file:line. Mismatches marked.
- Skip it when
- Ideas that only live in one part of the app.
- Changes
- Changes nothing
- Sessions
- Look first, then fix in a new session
- Tools
- Repository access and read-only access to the database layout.
- Watch for
- This is an unbounded trace. Name one concept up front or it will wander.
- Also called
- Semantic drift through the stack
Skills it uses
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