Confirmation Bias in Tech: Why We Choose Solutions Before We Understand Problems Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek out evidence that supports what we already believe and dismiss anything that challenges it, is part of being human. We all carry it. We all act on it, often without realizing it. But as technologists, we like to think of ourselves as rational, evidence-driven people. We deal in logic, in systems, in reproducible outcomes. Surely we’re above the petty cognitive shortcuts that trip up everyone else. We are not. And the consequences of pretending otherwise show up in production codebases every single…