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duxuptoday at 9:04 AM0 repliesview on HN

I got a spreadsheet of requirements for some software from a customer recently.

It was thousands of lines long with repeats and a boatload of conflicting requirements.

When we had a meeting to review it they didn’t know what many of the requirements were. They explained that many people made the spreadsheet but they were all in the meeting and nobody could quite describe some items or how they worked together. The vast majority of the spreadsheet was a mystery.

The phrasing and mishmash of concepts / inability of anyone to explain much of it made me suspect it was largely generated by AI.