Decision after decision after decision

I have access to a Large Language Model. It can do things for me. Most anything I can imagine done with ones and zeroes. It used to be that I’d come up with an idea, and then had the puzzle part where I tried to make the code fit together so it did the thing I wanted it to do. Alan Watts tells a story: See, there’s this guy, a farmer, who ordered a helping man to come in and found that he was an extraordinarily efficient worker. For the first day he put him on sawing logs. And he sawed more logs than anybody had ever sawed. It was fantastic. They were all done in one day. So the next day he put him on to mending fences. And there were all kinds of broken fences around the farm. And in one day he had the whole thing done. So he thought, “What am I gonna do with this guy?” So he took him down into a basement and said, “Look, here are all the potatoes that have come in from this harvest. And I want you to sort them into three groups: those that we sell, those that we use for seeding, and…