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I think working on a prototype necessarily is product thinking... So I don't understand this too much. Other than that it's agreeable points.

I have started clearing context and having Opus take a fresh look at it, and that's paid dividends in terms of reducing lines of code while retaining functionality less code, more comments

that understanding to the point that the total net productivity gain is questionable.

i force myself to review every LLM diff line by line, same as a PR from a junior dev. the moment you rubber-stamp changes you stop understanding the codebase. slower upfront but you never end up staring at code you can't navigate without the LLM.

Not implying here you lack business vision or anything. Talking about end goal of how your code should be after you make changes. When working seriously, I ship about 3x as fast as I would without AI. When prototyping its 10x. That difference is the clean up of code and product thinking.

Hmm, I personally found myself a lot more willing to refactor with an agent's help. I was very willing before that though.

LLMs have a horizon problem. They can get you to a solution fast, but they can't see over the horizon We need a /horizon skill This true, perhaps more true, for humans

"everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible" probably scales well

2 could not be more true. Having the default behavior be “let me work around the problem instead of trying to fix it” is great for marketing because you can make it seem like LLMs are capable of solving much more complex problems than they are.