> When you truly understand what you’re trying to accomplish, it’s easier to take a small step...

I think they're describing an approach to decision-making in the context of agents.

Engineers encountering LLMs for the first time think the problems they encounter are entirely novel, but really we are rehashing old lessons which Fred Brooks wrote about half a century ago, but in new jargon.

The essential difficulty of specifying what you actually want remains the same and nothing I've seen from LLMs will change that.

"First principles" is just the latest expression ruined by SFBA posers like "orthogonal" and "non-trivial" before it.

I think it's saying you need to go back and think harder about the problem instead of putting all your effort points into a solution.

Very confusing indeed. Is the core idea to read the picture as a flow from left to right? Or some people go down and left, but you need to first go right and iterate. Then go left and put it in a box. and then... dunno, lost track of thought, did AI or someone who is very new to Consulting write this?