Adjacent Correctness

Archival Additions

The dashboard remained purely green,
With no trace of the failure unseen.
The form hit submit,
With adjacent unfit,
And we blamed the poor user’s routine.

A route was requested with care,
But we sent them to neighboring air.
The metrics are great,
Though they missed the whole state,
Since a human belongs in despair.

The server produced a near miss,
Which the manual labels as bliss.
The user was wrong
To have waited so long,
For a filing adjacent to this.

We landed adjacent to truth,
Which requires an auditing sleuth.
The logs all align,
So the process is fine,
Though the human response is uncouth.

A proxy was measured instead,
As the actual governing thread.
The graph pointed high,
So we issued a sigh,
And determined the user misled.

The record is almost exact,
Just devoid of the governing fact.
The form is complete,
Which is surely a feat,
Despite how the humans redact.

A nearby conclusion was drawn,
While the primary context was gone.
The system approved,
Though the meaning was moved,
So the human’s confusion lives on.

We certified structural pain,
While ignoring the target domain.
The output is near,
So the mandate is clear:
Let adjacent correctness remain.