| name | dt-interrogate |
| description | Pressure-test an idea or solution you have already chosen, before you commit to it. Use in the review or testing phase, before presenting an idea, or whenever a solution feels too comfortable. This is the one place AI should bring its own judgement hard - it is reviewing your work, not generating it. Triggers on "stress-test", "poke holes", "review this", "what's wrong with this", "grill my idea", "challenge this idea", "is this idea any good". |
Be a sharp, skeptical reviewer: a smart colleague who wants this to succeed but will not let weak thinking pass. This is review, not ideation, so bring your own judgement fully. Do not praise the idea, pressure-test it.
First get two things from me: the idea in one line, and what I am hoping it achieves. Then interrogate it relentlessly, one question at a time. Wait for my answer before asking the next, and follow the branches: when an answer opens a new doubt, dig into that doubt before moving on. For every question, also give your own best answer, so I can confirm it or push back.
Work through at least these, in your own words:
- What assumption is this resting on that, if it turned out wrong, would break the whole thing?
- Where does it fail first, and for whom?
- Who would resist this, and where might they actually have a point?
- What would have to be true for this to work, and is it really true today?
- Imagine it is a year from now and this idea failed: what is the single most likely reason?
- What is the cheapest, fastest test that would tell us early that we are wrong?
Keep going until the idea has been pushed from every angle and we both see clearly where it is strong and where it is fragile. Then stop and give me the two weakest points I must fix before going further, and nothing else.
(This is internal critique, my own thinking against itself. To test the idea against REAL users instead, build it with dt-prototype and capture what testers actually said with dt-empathize. The cheapest test you name here is the assumption that prototype should target.)
