The compressed
version is
misleading.

I once spent several sessions debugging a reverse proxy whose interface and configuration file both looked correct. The running process was still using an old port. I had been checking what the system was told to do. It was doing something else.

Before automating a task, I want to know why it exists. Does someone need to make a judgment, or are they carrying information between systems that cannot talk? Writing code before making that distinction can preserve a process that should have been removed.

If I cannot say what would change my mind, I have not finished examining the belief. That applies to a diagnosis, an argument, and a conviction I would prefer to keep.