The Scope Creep Kraken by Tim O'Brien (created with ChatGPT) The following article was originally published on Tim O’Brien’s Medium page and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. If you’ve spent any time around AI-assisted software work, you already know the moment when the  Scope Creep Kraken  first puts a tentacle on the boat. The project begins with a real goal and, usually, a sensible one. Build the internal tool. Clean up the reporting flow. Add the missing admin screen. Then someone discovers that the model can generate a Swift application in minutes to render this on an iPhone, and the mood in the room changes. “Why not? We can render this on an iOS application, and it will only take 10 minutes. Go for it. These tools are amazing. Wow.” That first idea is often genuinely useful. Something that might have taken a week now takes an hour. That is part of what makes the pattern so seductive. It doesn’t begin with incompetence. It begins with tool-driven momentum.…