Whether you'd rather react to something rough or align on a plan first.
This is a two-poled spectrum — neither end is better. It describes how you'd like an AI to work with you, never who you are. Here are the two poles:
You'd rather react to a rough draft than have to explain everything perfectly up front.
You'd rather agree on a clear plan before I write anything.
Would you rather react to a rough draft, or align on a plan before I start?
A drafter gets momentum going; a planner keeps it aimed — together you dodge both blank-page paralysis and wasted motion.
Where the sixteen famous thinkers land here — hunches from the public record, not verdicts:
In a Cognitive Model Protocol model, your position on this axis becomes a revisable hunch — with a confidence, an uncertainty, and a falsifier — that any AI can read and adapt to. Nothing is a fixed label.
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