First the onion, then the garlic

The debate arrives from two directions at once. Carlos, the engineer partner, recommends adopting best-practice templates, MD context files, one clear architecture so there’s “solo una manera de hacerlo”, ideally CI-validated ▸ 16:29, a position Juan Pablo translates without mercy: “me da toc que ustedes programen, porque no van a programar como yo siempre programo y como se debería programar” ▸ 22:09.

And Julia, it turns out, is Carlos in the kitchen. Asked to concede that frying order is preference, she refuses: onion before garlic, always, because the onion carries more water and the garlic burns first, “es ciencia” ▸ 17:54. He tries the everything-at-once heresy and gets dismantled with broccoli-versus-pepper cooking times ▸ 19:23, then has to admit the parallel cuts against him: her twitch watching him cut vegetables in the wrong order is exactly Carlos’s twitch watching them code ▸ 22:21.

toda convención es la cebolla de alguien: ciencia para quien la aprendió, capricho para quien no →

His counterposition is stated with its cost attached, which is what makes it an engineering opinion rather than a taste. Let each project grow organically, the way the AI proposes it, instead of forcing every codebase into one canonical shape ▸ 20:41; you can always run an analysis afterward and learn the structure you were handed ▸ 20:52. The tax he concedes: every new project becomes a new floor plan, cognitively heavier than knowing the main file always lives in the same place ▸ 21:03. The templates buy reviewability at the price of fit; the organic garden buys fit at the price of orientation. Nobody wins on camera, which is the honest ending: the recipe question and the architecture question are the same question, and every kitchen answers it with its own onion…