Software Compiler Analogyconcept

The mapping that justifies compile-time AI — a knowledge compiler is to Markdown what a software compiler is to source code (AST, IR, optimization passes, executable).

It makes the economic argument intuitive. If analysis can be amortized across all executions for code, it can be for knowledge too.

Where it appears

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Prerequisites

Dependencies

Foundations

Historical evolution

Used throughout the 2026-07-11 and 2026-07-12 posts as the central framing.

Implementation details

Table: Source code|Markdown; AST|DocAST; IR|Semantic IR; Optimization|Pruning/Dedup; Executable|Static Next.js app.

Sources

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