The Invisible Decline of Reasoning
Roadmaps update and backlogs move, yet when asked "Why are we building this?"—silence. That’s reasoning decay: motion without logic. Framing is shallow, strategy drifts, learning unused, priorities wobble, judgment fades, process over purpose. The backlog turns into noise.
How Product Systems Quietly Forget to Think
You’ve seen it happen.
The roadmap updates. The backlog moves. Discovery continues. But when someone asks, “Why are we building this?” ...silence.
This is not a failure of process. It’s not laziness or misalignment. It’s something more subtle and more dangerous:
Your product system has stopped reasoning.