while building the rave world i’ve burned time on: how to generate a world, where to get models, which generators are worth anything, how to rig them, which library normalizes what, which tools animate locally. all of it inside one repo. none of it written down anywhere except my head.

a normal repo keeps code, tests, a readme describing the finished thing. the path disappears. in three months i won’t remember why i took that library over the other one, and i’ll google the same comparison again. anyone else walking in has no chance at all.

so the project shouldn’t be a folder with code. folder of folders, where the research, the dead ends, the wins and the implementation sit next to each other. research/ for the plans and comparison tables, experiments/ for what didn’t ship but proved something, decisions/ for we took three.js because x, y didn’t hold, z turned out critical. learnings/ for what each stage left behind.

that’s the workflow i want with ai. the project keeps its own history while it grows.