{"blyg":"0.4","id":"014x8872vkcpr5nt1kkqp7h3e9","kind":"thread","origin":"https://blyg.florianlohse.com/","page":"t/014x8872vkcpr5nt1kkqp7h3e9/","author":{"name":"Florian Lohse","url":"https://florianlohse.com/"},"created":"2026-11-08T08:48:11Z","updated":"2026-11-08T08:51:10Z","version":2,"content_md":"![[4kwy37c6qqxkdtvyaqca2vavfe | And Yet Here We Are 🚀: Keep your identity small when exploring the thicket.]]\n> If you stay too large the concept/projects are the same size as you and it’s too much to deal with. Better to be much smaller and become enchanted by the little particular thing.\n\nThis is important. It’s tempting to drop all caution commonly associated with building complex things, because \"AI will handle the complexity for me\". But this will just get you stuck in deeper puddles of mud than the ones you frequently got stuck in before Claude holding your hand.\n\nFinding the right size for a project or a workpackage, aka scoping is essential, maybe the most important human contribution next to contributing taste, opinions and irrationality.","content_html":"<blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion blyg-partial\" data-blyg-id=\"4kwy37c6qqxkdtvyaqca2vavfe\" data-blyg-version=\"1\" data-blyg-origin=\"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/\">\n<p>If you stay too large the concept/projects are the same size as you and it’s too much to deal with. Better to be much smaller and become enchanted by the little particular thing.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This is important. It’s tempting to drop all caution commonly associated with building complex things, because &quot;AI will handle the complexity for me&quot;. But this will just get you stuck in deeper puddles of mud than the ones you frequently got stuck in before Claude holding your hand.</p>\n<p>Finding the right size for a project or a workpackage, aka scoping is essential, maybe the most important human contribution next to contributing taste, opinions and irrationality.</p>\n","content_hash":"sha256:bd764a513d919519b7a5521c0a82ba245a24362e6fa8e1647443dd078cbb21c4","media":[],"transclusions":[{"id":"4kwy37c6qqxkdtvyaqca2vavfe","version":1,"origin":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/","selector":{"exact":"If you stay too large the concept/projects are the same size as you and it’s too much to deal with. Better to be much smaller and become enchanted by the little particular thing.","prefix":"o likely used AI to write them.\n"},"cited":{"source":"And Yet Here We Are 🚀","author":"Aneesh Sathe","excerpt":"Keep your identity small when exploring the thicket. Big creatures find it hard…","url":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/f/4kwy37c6qqxkdtvyaqca2vavfe/","retrieved":"2026-11-08T08:51:10Z"}}],"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-08T08:48:13Z","note":null},{"version":2,"at":"2026-11-08T08:51:10Z","note":"Shortened the quote"}]}