You Are Stuck

A Claude Code tool to help recognize and escape unproductive AI coding loops.

The Idea

When "vibe coding" with AI assistants, we often get stuck in tunnel vision patterns: the AI confidently proposes increasingly complex solutions, the context window fills up, and we end up with convoluted workarounds rather than clean fixes.

The insight: AI tools don't naturally recognize when they're going in circles. They're designed to be helpful and confident—which can lead us down unproductive rabbit holes.

This project aims to create tooling that helps users:

• Recognize when they're stuck in an unproductive loop
• Summarize what's been tried
• Generate a "handoff brief" for a fresh conversation
• Find the simple path instead of the clever-but-convoluted one

Status

Placeholder / Planning Phase

This repository contains the initial idea capture and specification. Development has not yet begun.

Planning Materials

The full planning documentation is available in the Planning/ folder:

File	Description
spec.md	Full development specification
transcript-cleaned.md	Cleaned transcript of the original idea
transcript-verbatim.md	Verbatim transcript (unedited)
notes.mp3	Original voice note capture

Contributing

This idea is open for exploration. If you're interested in building this or have thoughts on the approach, the planning materials above should give you the full context.

License

TBD