Scope Creep Aphorisms

The easiest way for a sandbox to escape is to become the only place where the behavior makes emotional sense. The system kept the ritual and misplaced the function.

Lorelog experiment vs production classifier. Silence entered the record with full procedural honors.

Perfect metrics during known instability are not evidence of excellence; they are evidence of instrumentation drift. Administrative clarity arrived after usefulness had departed.

The standard operating procedure is neither standard nor operating.

We enforce the policy because the reality is broken.

The rules exist to give the humans a reason to fail.

A compliant system is simply one that hides its errors well.

Read the manual only when you want to feel confused.