$ git log --diff-filter=mind
Changed my mind.
A running list of beliefs I have held confidently and then quietly abandoned.
The point isn't the new view, it's the seam between them.
- 012026was My brain is a special, unique snowflake, and nothing is coming close to it anytime soon.now Maybe these tools have a lot more in common with me than I'd like to admit.why The more I looked at my own decisions, acting against clear evidence, running on priors, never once seeing my own source code, the harder it got to insist the gap was a difference in kind instead of degree. I wrote a whole post talking myself the rest of the way there.
- 022026was Hand the AI the whole job and step back; it's the sharpest mind in the room.now The wiser move is to notice where that intelligence is actually being spent, and stop paying a premium for the work that never needed it.why Once I started watching what the model was actually doing, I could see how much of my token spend was determinism in disguise: mechanical checks a regex has handled since the nineties. I had caught myself renting Fable 5 just to confirm a comma sat in the right place. Lifting that scriptable work back into a plain Python pass cut the cost in half and lost nothing in quality.