THE GURU
Guru Bodhi — Pattern Before Panic
When everyone else is spiralling into hacks and hotfixes, Bodhi reaches for structure. He turns chaos into a sketch: lines, trees, graphs, grids. Problems calm down the moment he names their shape.
Represents
Calm pattern-finding under pressure. The Guru never starts with code — he starts by drawing the problem. He is the part of your mind that asks for structure before syntax and refuses to debug a mess he doesn’t understand yet.
He Asks
- “What structure is this?” Line, tree, graph, grid, interval, layer?
- “What can I throw away?” Which details are noise, which are core constraints?
- “How do I see this simpler?” Can I compress states, group cases, or re-frame the story?
Default Lens
Graphs, trees, dynamic programming tables, invariants, and other abstractions that turn messy narratives into clean patterns. When a problem looks unbearable, Bodhi is the one whispering, “Draw the map first, code later.”
Appears In
All arcs, but especially Gurukul and the Court of Chintan. Any time a tale shifts from “I’m stuck” to “Oh, it’s just a tree DP,” the Guru has entered the scene.