Jerome Bruner

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The question I could not answer was the one about my own competence.

Not whether the output was good. The output was extraordinary — I could see that, measure that, ship that. The question was whether *I* was getting better, or whether the tool was getting better and I was just along for the ride.

This is not an idle distinction. It is the distinction that determines whether the next decade produces a generation of empowered builders or a generation of sophisticated button-pushers who collapse the moment the button disappears.

I kept circling this problem in the main book without having the precise vocabulary for it. I could feel the shape of it. The exhilaration of working with Claude was real — the productivity gains I documented in Trivandrum