"Design for ghosts," Mira said. "State loves to linger. Make it easy to be explicit about ownership, and always have a safe bypass."
"Stale lock," she whispered. The phrase clanged differently in production: stale locks meant machines held against change, and when machines refuse change, humans lose control. aim lock config file hot
Mira pulled up the config file. Its contents were tidy: settings for aim sensitivity, safety thresholds, and a single comment line scrawled in a careless hand: # last touched by node-7 @ 03:12. Node-7 was offline. The system insisted the lock was active, though no process owned it. "Design for ghosts," Mira said