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Applejinxyesterday at 8:51 PM0 repliesview on HN

I'm in an industry where I can really see this, executed by honestly talented people able to interpret what the LLMs produce. It's bikeshedding hell. If you pursue every possible idea and get to implement all of them and it actually works, in the best possible scenario with no technical debt because you're able to stay on top of it (presumably in the window you have before you just burn out), you end up with all the ideas at once.

The project has tracked your imaginative state, and perhaps the states of your beta testers as they imagine things. It's a power armor suit tailored to specifically you. Nobody else will ever fit it because it's evolving too fast, all to implement your every whim.

I've seen this take 1.0 projects that are intentionally wildly scope-limited and great at that, and balloon until the project is the Everything Machine, doing everything but send email. I guess in the new era, every project expands until it becomes alive and devotes itself to your service… or at least, does its level best to be that for you and your beta team.

These things are not approachable. They're fever dreams, unparsable by outsiders. Discipline is lacking.