You ask a bunch of questions about a task in order to convince the client that the task doesn’t need to be done at all.

I ask a bunch of questions because I’ve forgotten half the answers already and am trying to make enough stick that I can make something close enough they don’t notice my attention is wandering while they blather.

We are not the same.

But often they are, in fact, the same.

Haha this is also something that comes with only experience. I’ve talked clients, and friends, off the feature ledge often.

One client has a whole solution from me and occasionally keeps asking for this or that thing and I have to tell him what part of the app already does that because he can’t keep track of all the things he’s asked for already.

If I had the time, I’d use the benefit of hindsight to restructure the whole thing and hope it’d help his pea brain along, but as it is, I spent too long just adding features wherever he asked me to, without taking the time to question whether that makes sense.