[MAGZine]

> A senior engineer should make evidence based decisions, as should any engineer.

... sooo there is no distinction between a senior engineer and a non-senior engineer? you've really said nothing in this comment.

senior engineers have seen enough things to know what the right solution is in many cases, without having to take a bunch of time to collect evidence. that's what makes them senior, not just 'good'.

[lowercased]

> seen enough things to know what the right solution is in many cases

When dealing with uncertainty (nearly always) it's generally easier to identify and rule out what 'wrong' solutions are. There are often multiple obviously 'wrong' options (no, we should not keep a user's password in plaintext, even if the goal is to make it easy to recover a lost password), but picking a 'right' one... from a whittled down list, it may often come down to familiarity or convention rather than an arbitrary "this is the only 100% correct solution".

[f1shy]

Then the problem is not missing information, as stated. There is enough information, if you have enough experience.

[beebmam]

Disagree, profoundly.