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To clarify ambiguous user intent, you can use a one-question-at-a-time interviewing approach that tracks confidence and confirms a restatement with explicit scope boundaries before planning begins. This prevents premature implementation driven by hidden assumptions.

The best way to stop early assumptions in requirements discovery is to apply confidence-based pacing, asking a single focused question at a time so the user reacts to a concrete hypothesis rather than a vague survey, ensuring true alignment on intent.

Requirements interviews work by sequentially presenting guessed hypotheses based on the vague request, tracking your confidence level, and stopping only when you can restate the outcome, user, and constraints with high certainty.

You need to restate intent with scope and out-of-scope boundaries before any spec or build work begins, specifically when someone asks to build a feature or improve a process and the true goal remains unclear.

Yes, you can use one-question interviews to stress-test your product thinking by reacting to focused questions that uncover hidden assumptions, validate guessed hypotheses, and ensure your request is fully aligned before execution.

A limitation of intent clarification is that it requires interactive chats to function, meaning it cannot process entirely static or one-way commands without the user's explicit confirmation to finalize the aligned restatement.