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by marcosdumay 1462 days ago
The idea of having prototypes that can be used immediately assumes you have hard work, not difficult problems. It doesn't try to transform anything into any other thing, it just fails to work on one of those cases.

As you quoted, it's a strategy for dealing with ambiguity risks, AKA solving the wrong problem. It assumes you have a lot of small problems to solve, and separates their risks so you can solve one at a time. It doesn't deal with big unseparable risks at all.