shishy

Do you think it's impossible for someone to have a 25K line PR / diff but not know what's going on in the system?

I ask because I've pushed some of this to the limit in my own testing and when I get the right building blocks / primitives in place in the repo, I'm able to get plans written in a way where I don't just describe what I want but specifically mention outcomes, verifications, constraints, etc. that utlimately describe the shape of my system and my intent.

My plan is my understanding of my system and the changes I'm making, and the execution of that plan (e.g. with subagents), verified against my spec, is the code itself.

With the correct building blocks, I've found that frontier models can write code in fairly predictable ways that lets me maintain my understanding and confidence in pretty large PRs.

I think perhaps the quoted part of your post seems to imply it's not possible / isn't phrased with that nuance?

yeah. they could have called it Medjourney.

This must be the Opus 4.7 constitution

i used to watch this on repeat when i was a kid. it makes for a great christmas movie these days :)

Hi - the opportunity space page is meant to be broad; a more specific and targeted programme thesis within that is going to come out in the coming months. I should mention that it's not just a call for technical solutions because, as you note, a lot of this is deeply rooted in social systems and requires design solutions (i.e. it's not just building more tech). But that is good feedback!

People are probably copy pasting already without that disclosure :(

> It was easy to swallow that failure. I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

what a ridiculous statement