The 10th Person: Questioning Consensus in Tech and Architecture
Summary
This opinion piece presents the '10th person'—a challenger of consensus in software decisions. It argues that groupthink leads to unnecessary complexity and debt, and it advocates disciplined skepticism, mapping decision trees, and asking 'why' at both big and small decisional granularity. The author also shares a personal perspective on autism as the 'autism advantage' in foreseeing futures, and cautions against over-reliance on LLMs for validation.