Five passes
In software you run this on the preview, not on the diff. Elegant TypeScript implementing a forbidden dashboard is still dead.
- Death of tells: slop chrome, template sidebars, spa voice. No debate.
- Thesis: can the person in the brief finish the job.
- Body: empty, error, success, light — do they match the hour.
- Scope: what did the model build extra. Extra is disloyal.
- Log: one line per death. That file is taste, inspectable.
Three survivors
You leave with a path, a risk, and a continuity take. One hero is how clients learn to demand miracles. Three is how they learn you are directing.
Time the factory gave you
If you spend the saved hours on more variants, you are a factory. If you spend them on brief, bible, and this room, you are in the office this site describes.