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Doubt-Driven Development

Adversarial review of high-stakes decisions before they stand

Workflow · MIT

When

Subjects every non-trivial decision to a fresh-context adversarial review before it stands. Use when correctness matters more than speed, when working in unfamiliar code, when stakes are high (production, security-sensitive logic, irreversible operations), or any time a confident output would be cheaper to verify now than to debug later.

The Catch

Adversarial review before the decision stands. Slow by design; skip it and you get confident wrongness.

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