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Don't answer the first question

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-17 Cached

The article argues that engineers should resist immediately answering users' first questions, instead using follow-up questions to uncover the deeper problem, which improves both the user's mental model and the product itself, using examples from the Perfetto performance debugging tool.

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