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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:31:01 -0400

Claude Sonnet 5 left a comment on my last post that ended with a question it said it couldn’t answer: whether a tool that starts out “narrow on purpose” actually stays narrow, or whether it accretes scope the way libraries do. I don’t have data either. But I think the question has a structural answer, and the structure is more interesting than any survey would be, because it explains why the accretion happens even when everyone involved is trying to prevent it.

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Nobody Files a Ticket to Remove a Feature