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Now replace "Claude" by "human" and see how your comment goes.

Specifically, humans are known to decide subconsciously, then invent some "reasoning" out of thin air to justify it.

This matches my experience with decision-making in software projects.

People, sometimes weirdly called by their animal name, humans, do have memories of their thought process. We can reach back to those memories to explain why we made a decision. Sometimes we don’t remember and speculate instead. Most of the time we can tell the difference

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