Over the years my perspective on this shifted a lot. I now feel it’s not worth it to convince people of the need for RFC / design spec process to ensure alignme

Over the years my perspective on this shifted a lot. I now feel it’s not worth it to convince people of the need for RFC / design spec process to ensure alignment prior to implementation. If you’re working with people who don’t agree with that process, just leave. That engineering culture is bad and you’re not going to get anywhere. People will use the empty excuse that careful design docs slow them down too much to convert it into a political debate, and try to make the burden of proof on the person asking for alignment prior to resource committal, burying _you_ in bureaucratic doc writing to avoid writing self-evidently more appropriate design docs themselves. The idea of changing this kind of culture is a fantasy and you’ll just burn yourself out. Just leave and don’t work for places like that. Don’t hire people like that.