A way to get leverage: focus on the meta-thing, not the thing.

  • A way to get leverage: focus on the meta-thing, not the thing.
    • The meta-thing is the system that generates the thing.[hz]
    • If you can get it to work well, then you improve not only the thing, but a whole class of things.
    • For example, if you have a compiler, optimizations improve everything it compiles.
    • Another example: in search quality, don't check in a configuration file of synonyms, check in the process to generate that file based on an analysis of the querystream.
      • Now it can improve itself automatically and keep itself up to date.
    • Another example: never touch the code directly, touch the specs and LEARNINGS.md that you give to the LLM to generate the code.

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