Ask Claude Code: "What, if you had known it when you started, would have saved you time?"
- Ask Claude Code: "What, if you had known it when you started, would have saved you time?"
- Then have it make those changes to the documentation.
- This is the key compounding loop in Compounding Engineering[fv].
- This naturally accretes useful insights and smooths things down, in each loop.
- Things that were missing get added.
- Things that were in the documentation, but were misleading, get eroded away and made more general or removed.
- Anything that the model can't fill in the gaps and still come to the right conclusion accretes, like a crystal growing in a suspension.
- It's (somewhat) specific to a given model.
- If the model already could guess right based on its latent knowledge, there would be no need for that bit of documentation.
- A magical complimentary crystal, grown from the process of attempting to achieve a given goal with the model.