hyper-focused developers

January 29 2026 @ 20:13 (edited January 29 2026 @ 20:19) 1 min read

Quoting Will McGugan[1]

Sometimes, developers get hyper-focused on tackling the immediate technical challenges in front of them that it prevents them from reflecting on past decisions. It's like you take a fork in a road, and find you need to climb a mountain. The faster route to your destination may be to backtrack, and take a more direct route without a mountain in the way.

In response to the convoluted react TUI app that is claude code[2]


  1. https://x.com/willmcgugan/status/2014341532338606480 ↩︎

  2. https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427 ↩︎