> When you truly understand what you’re trying to accomplish, it’s easier to take a small step...

I think they're describing an approach to decision-making in the context of agents.

Engineers encountering LLMs for the first time think the problems they encounter are entirely novel, but really we are rehashing old lessons which Fred Brooks wrote about half a century ago, but in new jargon.

The essential difficulty of specifying what you actually want remains the same and nothing I've seen from LLMs will change that.