Thanks for the thoughtful comment - you've captured exactly what I've been exploring!
Yes, there absolutely is a "Constraint Driven Design" pattern, though I've found it works less as a rigid methodology and more as a conversational approach to problem-solving. The basic flow looks something like:
* Start by explicitly articulating what you know must be true (constraints)
* Let these constraints interact to reveal implications you hadn't considered
* Use these revelations to discover new constraints
* Repeat until the solution space comes into focus
In the Blueprints section, I walk through how this works with Firestore queries - transforming documentation into explicit constraints that interact to reveal exactly what's possible and impossible.
As for domains, I've found this approach particularly powerful for:
* API design (constraints become your public interface)
* Database modeling (constraints reveal natural structures)
* UI/UX (constraints map to user mental models)
* System integration (constraints expose compatibility boundaries)
For LLMs specifically, I've discovered something fascinating: they're excellent at generating potential constraints, but terrible at understanding how constraints interact. In "Inner Logic," I explore how we might build systems that combine the pattern-matching strengths of neural networks with the logical reasoning of constraint solvers.