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Ada Lovelace invented coding as a way to avoid boring conversations. Logic as an escape plan.

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Ada Lovelace wrote notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843, including what is considered an early algorithm. It was serious mathematical work, not a way to avoid conversations.

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