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3 Questions Every System Design Review Misses
A senior engineer argues that most design reviews overlook three critical questions: what the design makes hard, what happened the last time it changed, and how it will be understood by future maintainers. These questions reveal hidden constraints and long-term risks that standard reviews miss. Naming trade-offs explicitly separates good systems from great ones.
Meridian48 take
The advice is sound but not new; the real value is in the concrete framing that helps teams surface invisible assumptions before they become costly surprises.
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