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by bccdee 549 days ago
It's usually not possible without a technical analysis, is my point. A throw-away prototype takes much longer to build and is much harder to review and discuss with stakeholders than a document. Like, how are you going to build a prototype demonstrating design trade-offs—are you just going to build every possible version? Are you really going to make a product manager read a 2000-line PR instead of three pages of bullet points?

Presenting a prototype only really make sense for UI-centric things anyway, and even then, there's a million ways to make a UI mock-up that don't involve functioning code.