Precision and Resolution: Why Clear Thinking Is the Bottleneck
In the age of AI, coding is becoming trivial compared to writing clearly, and writing clearly trivial compared to thinking clearly. This episode follows the distinction behind that hierarchy. Precision is a context-free ideal of capturing every detail without remainder; resolution is the capacity to make the distinctions that matter under the constraints of a given situation.
Coding: tools now supply much of the local resolution, so the human task moves upstream to specifying the problem. A blurred specification yields code that is locally precise yet globally misaligned, passing tests…
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