None of this is new. Developers have always been given ambiguous requirements, and questions about them have always been furiously rejected. Then they guess what was meant, or should have been meant, and that is what is deployed.
We have dealt with this in the political realm for decades. Vague word salads are being passed off as coherent policy arguments every where we turn.
After spewing some vague policy position, a politician's worst fear is that a reporter might ask "What do you mean by that?" Or "How would that work in real life?"
None of this is new. Developers have always been given ambiguous requirements, and questions about them have always been furiously rejected. Then they guess what was meant, or should have been meant, and that is what is deployed.
We have dealt with this in the political realm for decades. Vague word salads are being passed off as coherent policy arguments every where we turn.
After spewing some vague policy position, a politician's worst fear is that a reporter might ask "What do you mean by that?" Or "How would that work in real life?"