On Ideation
Since November, 2025 something has changed...
Almost a cliche line at this point. Its not Claude Opus 4.5, or Claude Code or everything else. I mean it is, but it also unlocked a lot of people and org acceptance.
Since our VP Eng started saying 'do agentic however you can, and heres my guidelines so far', I've been louder about my approach(es). I do everything. I have a question... into claude. I read a paper... include claude. I want to provide QA support to a friend who is lost? I ask for them and send them the conversation.
At this point its becoming a skill AND muscle. We need the endurance, which is trained, as much as we need the skill to know how to ask for what we want. Most people haven't put in the time yet, but its far less than 80k hours.
Right now, I've got a day off; I'm generating a new game idea in the browser, working on an older game idea that I initially wrote by hand (pretty thoroughly explored the space too), I'm exploring the depths of questions that rose when a coworker asked me about his own pet project(s) around Mixture of Experts, I'm learning about incoming age verification laws, detecting keyloggers, the latest ensemble of ideas from karpathy (with my background understanding to calculate delta) and much more.
Theres no comments section in this blog, so I challenge as an exercise to the reader: What are you thinking about that you could throw into an LLM and get more detail to challenge your own thought process and pull yourself forward?
Dont answer, its rhetorical.