My Boss Wanted a Universal Engine. I Used an Ancient Chinese Philosophy to Build It in 50 Lines of Code.
When a boss demanded a universal engine to run e-commerce, finance, and particle physics without changing code, a product manager turned to the ancient Tai Chi framework. The result: a meta Turing machine with just four tables and JSONB configuration. The five elements cycle became a Jacobian matrix for dynamic evolution. 50 lines of code proved that every business domain is the same topology — just different configuration. This is the ultimate abstraction for product managers tired of reinventing the wheel.