A general-specific problem is a specific general problem that arises after you solve a general problem. What makes such a problem general-specific is that, despite being a ‘specific’ problem (not everyone who faces the general problem ends up facing this specific downstream problem), it is also fairly general (a substantial amount of people end up facing this very specific problem )
For example. There are probably a thousand tutorials online showing you how to use docker with docker-compose to deploy a server along with its database. The general-specific problems in this case could be
- to use the docker-compose tooling in a CI CD pipeline
- use mounts and volume to be able to create regular backups of the database
General and specific (fewer) problems, both get disproportionately more attention than they need and general-specific problems get disproportionately lesser.