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dead end appears in 24 chunks across 19 episodes, from 2023-12-11 to 2025-12-08.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/9/24 (2024-09-09), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with llms, exponential cost, and prompt injection attack, while by chunk count it sits between agent swarm and resonant computing manifesto; its yearly rank moved from #62 in 2023 to #35 in 2025.
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Range2023-12-11 to 2025-12-08Mean1.3 per episodePeak2 on 2024-09-09
Observations
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Showing 24 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
... can grow under their own power into something massive.
Some scrappy things are dead ends, just little odd things that never turn into anything else.
It's hard to tell the two apart, even for gardeners, at the beginning.
If you make a scr...
... knowhow; they could feel the shape of the problem space (and, importantly, the dead ends to avoid) in their bones.
Many years later, the technology had caught up, and the ideas they'd been simmering on for more than a decade finally hit ...
...s become liabilities if they turn out to be wrong.
If your plan ends up being a dead end, then you're left in a place you don't like.
If you instead have a general goal, you can orient yourself and make good decisions even in changing con...
...route and respond to conditions... but the default is unless you get stuck in a dead end you will get there eventually.
If you can choose between a push-a-rock-up-a-hill strategy and a ski-down-a-hill strategy, always pick the latter.