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Same company, same invoice, same artifact – one rewrite by strangers, one by a machine. Why the two binaries don’t feel the same, and what authorship trust is made of.

I asked Claude to write field notes on how I actually work, in Jane Goodall third-person register. Reproduced verbatim – the accuracy is the punchline.

The git aliases I reach for dozens of times a day, grouped and explained, with frequency analysis of what actually gets typed.

Strong opinions, held for years, quietly abandoned. A running list of things I used to believe and don’t anymore.

I’m on Team Refactor, but the best refactor I ever shipped started as a rewrite. How the Parse shutdown gave MealPal permission to rebuild the foundation.

An all-nighter, a Lisp assignment, and an unexpectedly canceled AI class. Relief took poetic form, with apologies to Poe.