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Every time I've received overly detailed JIRA tickets like this it's always been significantly more of a headache than the vague ones from product people. You end up with someone with enough tech knowledge to have an opinion, but separated enough from the work that their opinions don't quite work.

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Same, I think there's an idealistic belief in people who write those tickets that something can be perfectly specified upfront.

Maybe for the most mundane, repetitive tasks that's true.

But I'd argue that the code is the full specification, so if you're going to fully specify it you might as well just write the code and then you'll actually have to be confronted with your mistaken assumptions.

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