{"id":23280,"date":"2026-08-14T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:48:44","slug":"understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding is the new bottleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Another example. I was migrating my personal website from one framework to another, and Claude wrote a script that did it. But it was very hard to review: I wasn&#8217;t familiar with the new framework, and all I could say was \u201cI guess that looks about right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I asked Claude to make me a video game \u2014 a command center where I do the port myself, step by step, watching the visible effects and the file tree evolve. It produced a UI where I click buttons to run the port step by step, with my old site and new site running side by side.<\/p>\n<p>In this command center I watched the new site come to life incrementally. That left me with a similar understanding to doing it by hand \u2014 but much faster, because the whole experience was laid out for me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geoffreylitt.com\/2026\/07\/02\/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck?utm_source=tldrdev\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another example. I was migrating my personal website from one framework to another, and Claude wrote a script that did it. But it was very hard to review: I wasn&#8217;t familiar with the new framework, and all I could say was \u201cI guess that looks about right.\u201d So I asked Claude to make me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}