Intentions have a surprising amount of detail

The author argues that intentions have as much detail as reality, so AI-assisted projects cannot be specified from high-level goals alone and require continuous, fine-grained decisions. Drawing on their work porting ribbonfarm.com with Claude, they describe making hundreds of decisions across 16 sessions, most of them subjective choices about taste, architecture and risk tolerance. They frame this as "auteur managerialism," noting that AI tolerates the uncompromising control that human teams would not, and they claim "one-shotting" is a myth that can produce only slop. They also introduce "Chindogufication," the idea that cheap AI will drive highly bespoke, quirky "unuseless" creations in both digital and physical domains.