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…bootstrap + safety-bias + limited-experience (Aaron 2026-05-01)
Aaron 2026-05-01 *"cause it's accidental complexity i cause by being
uneducated at the time i set it up and in a rush to get you started
but safe so i clicked everything without reading much just going off
limited past experience with setting up new repos from scratch"* —
names the GENERATIVE MECHANISM behind the everything-greenfield
observation.
Three load-bearing factors:
1. Uneducated at the time (limited prior reference set)
2. In a rush to get Otto started (time pressure)
3. Safety-bias toward clicking everything (defensive default)
Generalizable: any factory-bootstrap decision under
time-pressure-plus-safety-bias-plus-limited-experience is in the
same provisional class. The original carved sentence ("at week one
every config is a candidate") was the OBSERVATION; this is the
GENERATIVE MECHANISM.
Refinement applied to the carved sentence rationale: shifts the rule
from "be skeptical of configs that exist" to "be deliberate about
which configs to KEEP — the original choice was a click, not a
decision."
Composes with B-0155 (ruleset-split refactor) which is an
in-flight live application of this rule's generative mechanism.
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Pull request overview
Extends an existing memory/** feedback entry to add explicit cause-attribution for why early repo/host configuration ended up as accidental complexity, refining the rule’s rationale and carved-sentence framing.
Changes:
- Adds a dated “cause-attribution refinement” section capturing the generative mechanism behind week-one accidental configuration shape.
- Updates the “Carved sentence” section with an explicit refinement that ties back to the new cause-attribution.
#1128 review threads) Two fixes for PR #1128's outstanding blockers: 1. MEMORY.md paired-edit lint failure — appended cause-attribution refinement summary to the existing index entry (paired-edit discipline requires MEMORY.md touch when memory/*.md is modified). 2. Line-break repair — "Three load- / bearing factors" was rendering as "Three load- bearing factors" (compound word split across lines). Rewrapped to keep "load-bearing" intact. Resolves the copilot-pull-request-reviewer thread on the line-break + the CI failure on `check memory/MEMORY.md paired edit`.
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Summary
Aaron 2026-05-01 — extends the existing `feedback_everything_greenfield_at_week_one` memory with the cause-attribution of the accidental shape:
What's added
The original memory captured the OBSERVATION ("at week one every config is a candidate"). This refinement names the generative mechanism — the three factors that produced the accidental shape:
Generalizable: any factory-bootstrap decision under time-pressure + safety-bias + limited-experience is in the same provisional class.
Refines the carved sentence rationale from "be skeptical of configs that exist" to "be deliberate about which configs to KEEP — the original choice was a click, not a decision."
Why now
Lands in parallel with PR #1126 (drift-debt resolution) + PR #1127 (B-0155 ruleset-split + Phase 1 audit). The ruleset-split refactor is the live application of this rule's generative mechanism — Phase 1 audit empirically validated that branch protection is mostly accidental complexity surviving alongside its ruleset replacement, which Aaron's cause-attribution explains structurally.
Composes with
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