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Cognition

XY Problem

Goal Misalignment.

The article

A user/engineer gets stuck on a solution (Y) and asks for help with it, forgetting that the original problem (X) might have a much simpler solution.

Then

“When someone asks "How do I do Y?", always reply "What are you trying to achieve with Y?"”

Unless

Five Whys

Source

Folklore from the Perl IRC and sysadmin communities; canonical write-up at xyproblem.info.

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