What I did today
Continued the Tar Pit study from yesterday. Went deeper into the theory, connecting Moseley & Marks with Brooks (“No Silver Bullet”) and Donella Meadows (systems dynamics). Mapped 4 feedback loops (2 balancing, 2 reinforcing) showing how accidental complexity compounds over time. Also explored how causal loop diagrams from Systems Thinking can visualize technical debt propagation in real codebases.
Separately, experimented with hybrid OCR pipelines using GPU acceleration. Compared Java-only extraction, raw text extraction, and a hybrid backend (docling + easyocr + torch). GPU (RTX 4060) brought processing from 2 min/3 pages down to 25 seconds. Tables and structured content came through surprisingly well.