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This is a map of everything Taylor has asked for, in the order it has to happen. There are no dates on it. Each box is one thing to do. Left to right is the order.
The map compares two versions of the same plan: the plan as the GPT tells it (the GPT is the AI assistant Taylor has been building with) and the plan as it goes once real people, waiting and testing are counted.
10 → 28, top left, is the whole story. Ten steps if nothing had to wait and nothing had to be tested. Twenty-eight once the waiting and the testing are counted. The map shows where the other eighteen go.
Under the seven numbers is a row of small grey buttons. Find the one that says the long chain. Put the mouse on it, press the mouse button, and keep it held. The map fades except the longest road through the plan. Let go and the map comes back. Every small button and every number at the top works the same way.
Two ways to press: hold, and it lasts as long as your finger; or click once quickly, and it stays lit until you click it again or press the Escape key.
Amber: waiting for someone to say yes, and most of those yeses are Taylor’s. Red: a date nobody chose, such as the day Gmail empties its bin. Blue-green: the long road, and anything on it. Grey with a dashed edge: a good idea for later, drawn where it would hang off the plan.
Any box opens a note on the right side of the screen: why it sits where it sits, and the snags already found so they are not found twice. Close the note with its Close button, or press the Escape key.
The switch in the middle of the top bar has two halves; click either half. As the GPT tells it shows the plan as if nothing waited and nothing had to be tested twice. As it goes shows the plan as it will actually go. Same plan, different length; the number at the top left changes with it. Start again, at the top right, puts everything back the way it opened.
Wave. One round of waiting, or one round of testing. Not a week. The long chain. The longest road through the plan, drawn in blue-green. Shorten anything on it and everything moves. A yes. A decision only one person can make. A round. Test it with one person, fix what they find, test again. ∞. A thing with no “good enough” written down, so its testing has no end.
The first day is easy. You describe a thing, it appears, it works. The second week is where the time goes. The thing has to work for Michelle in accounts, not only for you. It has to work on the shared mailbox nobody owns. It has to keep working after the AI tool changes, which it does without warning. Each of those is a round of testing, and each round is a wave on this map.
The way out is not to build less. It is to write one line before building: what good enough looks like. Then testing knows when to stop.
Tap Phone at the top and the same map becomes a list you scroll down. Tap Desktop there to come back.
| Pill | Kind | Lane | Owner | Waits on | Start | Waves | End | Status |
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