> Clear goals are for junior "code monkeys" who just do what they are told without any concern for if they are going the right thing. Yeah, this is so true. I

> Clear goals are for junior "code monkeys" who just do what they are told without any concern for if they are going the right thing. Yeah, this is so true. I think the task with an clear process to do it have an clear goal. But other than that, tasks that's very vague such as design an API, design schema to efficient some kind of certain query usually requires a bit of art, and we learn from the mistake/success of last similar project to improve this one.