CANONICAL DEFINITION — VERSION 2.0

Programmed Interface Compression: Definition, Tests, and Examples

Programmed Interface Compression (PIC)

Programmed Interface Compression is the phenomenon in which two parties sharing an engineered, evolving codebook can shrink their messages toward near-nothing because the shared state carries the meaning.

Plain-language explanation

Repeated work becomes easier when stable decisions move into a shared, inspectable reference. A later message can point to that reference instead of restating every destination, format, default, and exception.

Recognition kit

1. Shared reference
2. Reduced repetition
3. Correct reconstruction
4. Evolving state
5. Repair path

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Strip the codebook | What PIC is not | Examples

Canonical definition | Version 2.0 | TJ Jung | HMIC LLC