When one prompt opens every branch, prioritization becomes the bottleneck, not AI
AryHHAry · x · 2026-10-07
quxiaoyin sparked a resonant discussion: experiments used to be expensive, forcing you to pick the right thing; now a single prompt can spawn new branches, so scope keeps expanding while loops go unclosed. AryHHAry's reply sharpens it: what got cheap is starting, not deciding—evaluation, taste, and the question "what decision changes if this ships" still live in the human cycle. AI widens idea throughput but doesn't automatically widen your stopping criteria; being stuck is now a prioritization problem, not an AI capability problem.
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