Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
Summary
The article contrasts two project approaches—action-first versus overthinking—and uses personal examples to highlight how minimal scope and clear success criteria improve outcomes. It provides a detailed look at structural diffing tools (difftastic, semanticdiff, diffsitter, etc.), discusses tree-sitter-based approaches, and outlines a plan to build a lightweight, editor-integrated diff workflow for reviewing AI-assisted code.