rajnandan1/ken
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Thompson-mode systems discipline for AI agents. Think first, build bottom-up, brute force until measured, rewrite over patch.
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<em>Try it, and if it doesn't work, throw it out and do it again.</em>
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Ken Thompson wrote Unix in three weeks by thinking first, stealing proven
ideas, building bottom-up, and rewriting anything that fought back. **ken**
puts that discipline inside your AI agent.
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The loop, in order, on every task:
1. Think first → build the mental model before touching the code