Future Grilling

Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of the work until you reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.

What good output looks like

• For the user: every decision the work depends on, settled in dependency order, with the reasoning recorded.
• The default to prevent: a questionnaire in random order, and questions the codebase, docs or tools could have answered.
• The detail a careless session misses: a decision that quietly contradicts what the user said good means.

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