Thanks of writing this. I've been thinking of writing similar thoughts down, but now I don't have to. I'll just tell people to read this. Now I have to go back to clarifying a design for Claude. Shoot that just reminded me of something related to the "project that collapses on itself" idea. Sometimes just like with a human it will offer ideas of how to scramble away just ahead of the collapse. Then I can ask "how would you do that?" and it spends a few minutes trying things and then comes up with something that works good enough to show me a path through the rubble. Working with humans I've also encountered this to– but less frequently and with a longer time lag.