Law 09 · Reasoning & Planning
Stop Tuning, Start Scaling
Build scaffolding you would gladly delete.
The principle
The Bitter Lesson isn't a ban on structure. It's a warning against hand-coded cleverness that quietly becomes a ceiling. Use code where you need guarantees and thin scaffolds for today's weak spots, but keep asking whether a simpler, more model-driven version now works better.
The mechanism, the warning signs, a worked example, and the apply-it recipe for this law are in the complete edition.
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