“Keep It Stupid Simple” might be a more accurate variant for this space. So many people overthinking things that have simple solutions.
Because sometimes stupid-simple is the most powerful path forward. A chain of clean prompts. A well-framed context block.
An intuitive interface between task and output.
No agents needed. No overfitted wrappers. Just alignment between intent and execution.
I see what can best be described as blocked pathways which are the actual bottlenecks to progress. But they’re in between the chair and the monitor.
It’s not Python syntax or API errors. It’s the lack of flow in design thinking: trying to stack scaffolds on wobbly assumptions, trying to delegate logic without understanding logic. You can’t build the roof for a house without walls.
Think lean. It starts with your getting your mindset right when you create a prompt or a process or a gpt. Go old school, write it out, think of how the system will likely respond and recalibrate before you burn tokens and create hallucination-prone output.
As a legitimate question, who is this advice for? It would seem to me that people who employ complex solutions are looking for the challenge of building a fleshed out system, even if its actual task doesn’t necessarily require it.
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“Enjoy complex solutions” just triggered my analyst mode.
Ever managed a budget on a multi million dollar high stakes project where accuracy and delivery and timeliness are vital? Worked with limited resources? Had to keep everyone at every level informed and on task? Fancy vanity projects will never make it to production in the real world.
Nothing wrong with exploring and challenging yourself, on your time, just not when you’re on the clock and billing your customer for hours worked on an over engineered product they can’t understand once the consultant moves on.
Just notes from this old ECM systems administrator and project and production manager for big data systems.
Build like you’re the one that has to fix the system in 6 months, for free. Not building to show off, just retrain your brain to work smarter, more efficiently, even when it comes to AI. This is the kind of thinking I instil in my teams and projects I manage.