How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models
I work on Claude. It’s an interesting experience: Every day I learn about yet another feat accomplished with or by Claude that I hadn’t considered, di...
Summary
This post describes a failure pattern where engineers in new senior roles overextend, go silent for weeks, and spiral into burnout or termination.
The author advises dropping a level to do grunt work and support teammates, shifting from outcome-based to momentum-based effort. The core lesson is that daily incremental reliability builds the trust needed to earn bigger responsibilities over time.
