Why intent alone is incomplete

  • Pocock says developers and non-developers both struggle to specify exactly what they want. The problem includes missing requirements that the requester does not yet recognize. 16:04 16:30
  • Unmentioned concerns can lead an agent to invent an answer or treat a concern as unimportant. Security and deployment are his concrete examples. 17:34
  • Some weaknesses only become apparent when an idea becomes executable code, because vague intentions must become connected, precise statements. Interviewing cannot eliminate all design discovery. 18:04 18:35

What Grill Me does

  1. Have the agent interview you relentlessly about the proposed product. 17:01
  2. Use the questions to explain your priorities and reveal issues you had not considered. 17:01
  3. Remain willing to revise the design as implementation exposes gaps. The underlying skill is recognizing that your design may be incomplete. 18:04 18:35

Carry uncertainty into production

  • Herk describes telling clients that protections cannot anticipate every real-world input. He pairs that warning with monitoring and a commitment to keep failures safe. This is his operational example, rather than a claim that upfront planning covers every edge case. 18:59 19:23