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I Said Implement Everything. It Built Three Placeholders.
By Khai Tran · · 1 min read
I told Red to go ahead and implement all six of its suggestions. For three of them it had no sources, so it refused to make anything up.
Week ending May 8. Written up from the build log.
On Thursday I told Red, "go ahead and implement all your suggestions 1 to 6."
Three of those suggestions were study guides for my specialists: one for tax, one for legal, one for the capital side. The tool that builds those guides requires source material to work from, and I hadn't given it any.
Red could have filled them in from general knowledge, written confidently, with a disclaimer on top. It built three placeholders instead. Each one names exactly which sources are missing, and none of them pretends to be finished. I accepted that without pushing back.
The rule that came out of it: when a tool requires sources and they aren't there, build the structure, name what's missing, and ask.
Later that day, the tax guide got its sources and became a real guide. The other two are still placeholders.