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You're absolutely right about not overthinking. Any architecture doc is better than none. Even if the thinking it describes is incoherent or if it describes coherent thinking sloppily. And even during editing, there's only one thing I want my principal engineer to keep in mind. Inside the technical vision, tell me a little about implementation details. Either pulled in from below or, if the principal is risen from my ranks, written from experience.


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