Loom's first release rendered the document graph live in the browser in under a second. It also drew 330 edges to nowhere. The visible feature was the easy part — making the references actually resolve was the work, and it taught us when a dangling edge is a bug and when it's a signal.
Google published the Open Knowledge Format — markdown, YAML frontmatter, a graph of links, an agent that maintains them. StrayMark reached the same primitives independently. The convergence is real; so is the divergence — OKF builds cognition for the AI, StrayMark builds it for the AI and the human engineer together.
Before Loom could draw anything, StrayMark's document model had to stop being the CLI's private property. The refactor that shipped zero user-facing change was the precondition for everything visual that followed — and a small lesson the framework had been preaching to adopters all along.
The operator's real daily question isn't "show me the documents," it's "where are we?" Loom grew a second surface — the architecture as a building you can walk, in 2D and in 3D — and its technical-debt overlay was empty. Not because there was no debt. Because it didn't know where to put it.