A farmer who ordered a farmhand quickly discovered he was an extraordinarily efficient worker.

The first day, he put him on sawing logs, and the farmhand sawed more logs than anybody else, ever. It was fantastic — but the wood-cutting work was all done in one day.

So, the next day, the farmer put him onto mending fences. There were all kinds of broken fences around the farm. And, again, the farmhand had all the work done in one day.

So the farmer thought, “What am I going to do with this guy?”

The next day, he took the farmhand to a basement and said, “Look, here all the potatoes that have come in from this harvest. I want you to sort them into three groups: those we sell, those we use for seeding, and those we throw away.”

He left the farmhand to it. And at the end of the day, the laborer came back and said, “Well, that’s enough, mister, I quit.”

“Oh,” the farmer replied, “You can’t quit. I’ve never had such an excellent worker. I’ll raise your salary — I’ll do anything to keep you around me.”

The farmhand said, “No. It’s all right mending fences and chopping wood, but this potato business is decision after decision after decision.”

They think they're giving you something when they're actually taking something away.

We just threw Cursor/Claude at the images and it dug out the colours we wanted.

They did it first because doing it first was easier. There are tons of examples around and code can be verified to work.