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> I see substantial overlap between "talk about your last project" [...] and "tell me how you want to spec this architecture; why".

A major difference is that some people have deficiencies in autobiographical memory. This can make telling the story of a past project vastly more difficult than talking about a subject of current focus. An extreme case was recently described in Wired [1], but the ability is generally more of a spectrum.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographica...