an admission and lukewarm take, apropos of nothing: I find the usual tech spec substructure of “options considered” and “pros and cons” really itchy

I think it’s good-in-theory but in practice it becomes makework, & I’d generally rather see more focus on the problem statement!

Put another way, if a problem statement is really dialed in, the solution falls out from it (as do the other options, & why they may not work)

@isntitvacant a good program is a model of the problem that is constructed so that answers readily fall out of it

@isntitvacant This sounds related to the XY Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem