lately i’ve been thinking about llms. not technically. just personally.

i’ve been at my new job for about two months.

in meetings we talk about projects. timelines. data. i take the information i have and try to connect it well. usually i land somewhere that feels solid.

in that moment it feels complete. safe. like i did my part.

and then someone adds something.

a detail. a constraint. a dependency i didn’t know about.

once it was about delivery timing. i was thinking in terms of an estimated arrival time. someone pointed out we actually plan around a planned arrival time, which includes buffers and internal steps.

same topic. different meaning. completely different decision.

and the picture shifts.

it’s not that my conclusion was wrong. it was just built on a smaller context.

that’s when it clicked.

i behave a lot like an llm.

give me limited context and i’ll still produce something coherent. logical. maybe even convincing. but there are blind spots i don’t see because they’re outside the window.

what surprised me is this doesn’t make me insecure anymore.

missing context is not incompetence. it’s just where you are in the loop.

the only real problem would be refusing new input.

so now when feedback comes, i don’t collapse it into self-doubt. i treat it like expanded context.

the system works. as long as you keep feeding it.