The second example she uses is really important. You (used to) see this a lot in stackoverflow where an inexperienced programmer asks how to do some convoluted

The second example she uses is really important. You (used to) see this a lot in stackoverflow where an inexperienced programmer asks how to do some convoluted thing. Sure, you can explain how to do the thing while maintaining their artificial constraints. But much more useful is to say "you probably want to approach the problem like this instead". It is surely a difficult problem and context dependent.