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The art of asking a system to confess its sins before you fix it.
means The process of identifying the cause of a problem by testing, examining, and interpreting symptoms or signals.
from From Greek 'diagnostikos,' meaning 'able to distinguish,' built from 'dia-' (apart, through) plus 'gignoskein' (to know, to perceive). The same root 'gno-' gives English 'know' and words like 'gnosis' and 'prognosis' — so diagnostics is literally the skill of knowing things apart, telling one condition from another by looking closely at what's in front of you.
- origin
- Greek for able to distinguish or discern
- doctors vs mechanics
- same logic, different warning lights
- dirty secret
- often finds five problems you didn't ask about
- golden rule
- the test itself can create the symptom