Ask HN: Tell me how you determine context
People that write technical books, blogs, articles seldom share in what context something is written.
Most tech needs context.
When someone says "you can use this and that" where is the context coming from ? How does one know the context based on what someone says about their own context ?
The reason I am raising this question is because during the last 10 years I have been growing tremendously tired of the monologue of our field and the herd of people that follow monologues like it's truth-telling.
AI is great example. Cloud was a great example. Platform Teams is another. Etc.
Without understanding context for circumstances what you get is at best a good guess. Nothing can be magically applied to anything and out of that same magic no good results will ever come.
How do you determine context ?