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2023-06-26T00:00:00Z · 7 min · 1604 words
Doctrine 14: Publish the Attrition Log
The standard convention is to publish what works. In an environment where a language model can read your open-source codebase and produce a clean-room port in an afternoon, publishing the search history — what was tried, what failed, what the wrong approach surfaced — is the substrate that the port cannot reproduce. The attrition log is the contribution. Five dated examples from the substrate I have shipped.