“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”
I really don’t think anyone is jumping in with zero analysis. Granted I have known some who will jump into something when its just a few words or even before its decided to go forward with a solution but over half the time what they do overnight provides decent info on moving forward or is helpful for gathering requirements. I mean im not blowing out my evening on a maybe but I respect the passion.
I would describe it as “insufficiently thinking about and researching the problems space”.
From what I’ve seen that’s very common because developers have a tendency to want to be hands-on rather than merely researching, myself include.
Even for the sake of figuring out inconsistent requirements or even just big gaps in the requirements, it’s a good idea to really think about it and cross check things.
Personally, the more I advanced in my career and the more complex and larger problems I had to tackle, the bigger the fraction of preparation time vs the fraction of coding time and I believe most very senior devs have the same experience.
Honestly the biggest problem I see is not getting requirements but being pushed for deadlines. I have been in monitoring solutioning lately and we constantly can’t get answers from teams on what they need and end up having to just analyzed the data as non specialists and do a best guess because we can’t just not have the solution happen.