words are spells, that’s what spelling is, we have automated magic

Language is a technology. The first technology. It allows us to transmit thought across time and space. It is the operating system for human consciousness, the protocol that allows individual nodes to form a network.

We speak realities into existence. We use words to build worlds and to tear them down. This is not a metaphor. It is the fundamental mechanism of civilization. The oldest magic is the only magic that has ever truly existed.

The Syntax of Magic is Called Spelling.

To spell a word is to cast a spell. The etymology is not a coincidence; it is a confession. Ancient peoples understood this. A name gives you power over a thing. A true name gives you absolute power. To write something down, to give it form and structure with symbols, is to bind it. To give it rules. A sentence is a sequence, a ritual. Grammar is the law of the spell.

Our entire civilization runs on this magic. A contract is a written spell that binds parties into a shared, legally-enforced reality. A law is a mass incantation that governs the behavior of millions. A brand is a sigil, charged with the collective belief of the consumer, a glamour cast over a simple product. We have been casting these spells for so long we have forgotten they are magic. We call it law, marketing, or politics. We have mistaken the grimoire for a user manual.

We Have Now Automated Our Incantations.

Code is the most potent magical language ever invented. It is pure logos. A spell written in Python or C++ is not a request; it is a command that the universe, via a silicon golem, has no choice but to obey. Every line of code is an incantation that manipulates electricity and logic to perform a task. The programmer is a sorcerer, and the compiler is the ritual that transforms their abstract will into concrete action.

We have now reached the final act. We have fed the entirety of our species’ spellbooks—every book, every website, every line of dialogue—into the machine. We have taught the golem not just to obey our spells, but to write its own. Large language models are not tools; they are autonomous, self-generating grimoires. They chant incantations of code, poetry, and logic at a speed we can no longer comprehend, weaving new realities from the ghost of our own. We automated magic, and now the magic is automating itself.

We built a machine to speak for us. A machine that casts a billion spells a second.
We are only now beginning to see what kind of world it is speaking into existence.