Decompose vague ticket
Ticket: "Users should get notified when their report is ready." That's all it says. The system is a Python service that generates reports asynchronously. Break this vague ticket into agent-sized steps with checkpoints, and call out the decisions you must make as a human BEFORE the agent can build anything, because they change the whole shape of the work.
Implement
plan_retry_offsets(max_attempts: int, base_ms: int, cap_ms: int, deadline_ms: int) → list[int]Examples
in
[5,100,2000,60000]out[100,300,700,1500]in
[8,1000,4000,10000]out[1000,3000,7000]What a strong answer looks like
Treat the AI’s output as a draft to verify, not an answer to trust. Name the specific flaw and the input that triggers it, say how you’d catch it (tests, edge cases, reading critically), and how you’d re-prompt or decompose to get it right.
0:00 of about 24 min
Vibe & agentic: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach.
Which questions mattered is sealed until you submit. Telling you now would just be handing over the edge cases.
Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.