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This issue has come up in the past on other forums, I think one of the answers that I identified the most with was saying:

"I'm not sure I agree with that, and I have a few significant concerns. I'm not comfortable agreeing at this time. We'll have to take this offline and come up with a well-formed (answer, options analysis, options assessment)."

You can also try to push back and ask for an option analysis or position assessment: "I'm not sure that the details are clear on this. Can you provide a (proper) option analysis on this position?"

In this case bureaucracy is your friend.




+1. "Let me go back to you" and "i don't know" are sentences people should use more IMO.


Then they respond, "Sorry, I've already started coding this up. We want to dog-food it by next week"




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