<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # My present method belongs to a much older... > My present method belongs to a much older engineering sequence. The decade beginning in 1994 and documented in [[projects/Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine|Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine]] taught me to represent language as intersecting phonological, lexical, semantic, ontological, distributional, and attested structures. The twenty-six-year authoring exploration documented in [[projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship]] then made quotation boundaries, passage boundaries, contextual transformations, provenance, and reuse explicit inside the source itself. Modern language models arrived after those commitments were already operational. {{Artificial intelligence did not invent my authoring method; it entered an architecture I had spent decades building to govern language.}} [[reminders/Writing/AI Entered an Architecture Built to Govern Language by Bryant McGill|∴]] **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “My present method belongs to a much older engineering sequence. The decade beginning in 1994 and documented in Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine taught me to represent language as intersecting phonological, lexical, semantic, ontological, distributional, and attested structures. The twenty-six-year authoring exploration documented in Dual-Render Authorship then made quotation boundaries, passage boundaries, contextual transformations, provenance, and reuse explicit inside the source itself. Modern language models arrived after those commitments were already operational. Artificial intelligence did not invent my authoring method; it entered an architecture I had spent decades building to govern language. ∴” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-present-method-belongs-building-govern-language ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->