The half-a-job problem — setting completion goals on hobby projects
AI made it easier to start hobby projects, which made the old half-finished-project problem louder rather than smaller.
Field notes on running things like production — at work, at home, and in the gap between them.
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AI made it easier to start hobby projects, which made the old half-finished-project problem louder rather than smaller.
A coding agent's biggest flaw isn't bad code - it's never knowing when to stop. Give it one ticket and it'll finish it, then suggest three more improvements. Each one is reasonable. Each one feels related. A few hours later, a simple fix has become a whole new project.