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by zamadatix 825 days ago
We need to know why to optimize or refine the suggestion but nothing really says we need to halt any suggestion until that point.

For almost all real world questions a more neutral mix of "Well, you could try ${x} by doing ${xthings} but it might also make sense to do ${y} or other things depending on the ultimate goal" actually gets better results faster than a pure XY or YX approach.