That's also why it is difficult for me to tell what I've done in the standup meeting on another day. If I tell people I just spend time on "thinking", they will say it is too vague.
From the introduction, I can see a list of backend technologies. But do they have a high level architecture diagram? I don't know what I really need for production setup.
The punch card is the "design". From the video, it isn't user friendly to edit on terminal. (btw, it is rare to see full English UI in Japan) They can just replace the part to create the punch card. But the textile machine is totally fine to keep consuming punch card.
Tape is fine too but it is risky because factory may stop creating tape.
Not a novel, there was a movie called "Her" around 10 years ago. The man fell in love with a Chatbot. iirc He also used the Chatbot to do some writing.