Engineering and math, the final frontier, to boldly go where no human has gone before!

What happens when you are building something so unprecedented that the words to describe it do not even exist yet?

Standard Agile assumes product and engineering can just sit in a room, write stories, and align. But you cannot write a user story for the "new new". The vocabulary simply isn't there! If you try to push uncharted concepts through standard communication channels, the sheer friction of translation loss will kill your project.

You cannot manage the unexplainable with tickets.

The fix is to stop talking and start specifying. Before you build the product, you build the language.

A Domain Specific Language (DSL) forces abstract, never-before-seen concepts into a rigorous grammar. It creates a structured medium for ideas that previously had nowhere to go.

Once that language is defined, the engineering team's job shifts entirely. They do not need to decipher a deeply complex, uncharted business domain. Their only job is to build a compiler, the engine, that makes this new language executable!

All original content copyright James Litsios, 2026.