Boondoggling

The practice of conducting Claude through a build — assigning each task to the right labor, sequencing tasks by dependency, and producing explicit handoff conditions between every step — is called boondoggling.

A boondoggle is not a workaround. It is programming as conducting. Anyone can use Claude Code. Boondogglers conduct it.

The recognition that drives the practice: the human's job in an AI-assisted build is not to type less. It is to decide more precisely. Every prompt that goes to Claude is a decision about what Claude can be trusted to do at this step. Every handoff condition is a decision about what "done" means before the next step begins.

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