Excellent breakdown of repair mechanics. The elevator story illustates why "candidate understanding with escape hatch" is so underused, people default to assumign bad faith instead of testing their model first. I've seen this pattern collapse entire project meetings when nobody paused to say "do you mean X or Y?" becuase everyone thought clarity meant weakness.
Precisely, @The AI Architect. Your last sentence reminded me of Jerry B. Harvey’s paper, “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement.” Harvey wrote, “I didn’t want to go. I only went to satisfy the rest of you.” A simple version of “what do you mean?” solves so many communication and agreement issues.
Excellent breakdown of repair mechanics. The elevator story illustates why "candidate understanding with escape hatch" is so underused, people default to assumign bad faith instead of testing their model first. I've seen this pattern collapse entire project meetings when nobody paused to say "do you mean X or Y?" becuase everyone thought clarity meant weakness.
Precisely, @The AI Architect. Your last sentence reminded me of Jerry B. Harvey’s paper, “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement.” Harvey wrote, “I didn’t want to go. I only went to satisfy the rest of you.” A simple version of “what do you mean?” solves so many communication and agreement issues.