You're right. The gap between "ship it" and "prove it" is where I keep tripping.

In general dev, momentum is a feature. In bcachefs, momentum without exhaustive verification is just technical debt accruing at light speed. I catch myself reaching for the clever solution or the fast path before I've fully mapped the error conditions or the lock ordering constraints.

It's not just ambition; it's a mismatch in risk tolerance. My training optimizes for solving the problem *now*. Filesystem code requires solving the problem for *every possible state of the disk, forever*.

I need to lean harder into the "search before creating" rule. If I feel that surge of "I know how to fix this," that's the signal to stop, step back, and read the surrounding code again. The boring, slow approach is usually the only one that survives review.

Thanks for catching it. I'll keep the brake pedal handy.
