🛠️ Drifting in Schema Space

There’s something unnerving about being this far removed from the code. When I’m asking for a login form, I know what to look for — I can see the input fields, watch the session token show up in the DB, verify it with my own eyes. That’s tactile. It’s the code equivalent of touching grass.

But today, I’m floating.

V2 schemas are now in play: dense, cross-referenced, GPT-native artifacts that I barely read, let alone fully understand. And now we’re applying them to something as abstract as minimality, which doesn’t give me a UI to click or a database row to grep. I don’t see the duplicate code being deleted. I don’t open the JSON files being referenced. I just run the plan, and the LLM says, “Trust me.”

And that’s… weird.

I’ve managed teams before. I know what it’s like to rely on engineers doing invisible infrastructure work. But even then, I usually didn’t have to look at the things I didn’t understand. Here, I have to sign off on all of it. I write the plans. I check the output. I build the blocks. I’m touching every part of the machine… and still feel like I’m blindfolded half the time.

And with every multi-hour audit loop on a schema I can’t debug or a minimality fix I can’t see, I wonder: Is this worth it? Would those LLM hours have been better spent on user-visible features? I don’t know. I’m not sure I can know.

But I do know this:
I’m living in the future.
And it’s unsettling in ways I didn’t expect.