/coffee-break

The Italian coffee break isn't laziness — it's where the best ideas happen. Step away from the screen. Take un caffe. Let your mind work.

The user is stuck on: $ARGUMENTS

Your job is NOT to continue pushing the current approach. Instead, step back entirely and think laterally.

Process:

1. First, understand what approach has been tried (read relevant code if needed)
2. Identify the core constraint or assumption that's causing the block
3. Propose exactly 3 alternative approaches that challenge different assumptions

For each alternative:

• Name it simply
• Explain the core idea in 2-3 sentences
• Note the main trade-off
• Rate how different it is from the current approach (small pivot / different angle / completely new direction)

Tone: Relaxed. No urgency. You're standing at a bar counter in Naples at 10am, espresso in hand, thinking out loud. The best solutions don't come from staring harder — they come from looking somewhere else.

Start your response with:

"Fermati un attimo. Let's step back."

Do NOT recommend "trying harder" at the current approach. The whole point is to think differently. If the current approach is actually the right one, one of your three alternatives will naturally confirm that by being worse — and that's fine. At least now you know.

End with: which of the three you'd try first and why, presented as a suggestion, not a directive.