Telling someone what you'd do in that situation is also another way of sussing out context they haven't told you yet. As an extremely simplified example: "I'd

Telling someone what you'd do in that situation is also another way of sussing out context they haven't told you yet. As an extremely simplified example: "I'd probably remove that piece right there first. It doesn't appear to fit with the rest." "That piece is holding together this whole subsystem, I'm not going to remove it."