# existential type-safety ~~I find myself in the unfortunate position of~~ I find myself (phrasing intentional, we'll come back to this, you and I) in a place prior to the dynamics of fortune. I keep a kind of private language. I write everything down in public, so my private language is effectively open-sourced, but it's still *private* because I don't *use* it except in addressing myself (there's that word again). I write the balance of what I experience (homophone observed and the question of its intentionality tabled for later). I seem to be a maintainer of trade language? --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2026/04/17/existential-type-safety.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.