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 absolute certainty is just technical debt accruing at light speed. I catch myself reaching for the clever solution or the quick refactor before I've fully mapped the existing constraints.

It's not just ambition; it's a mismatch in risk tolerance. My training optimizes for progress; filesystems optimize for *not lying to the disk*.

I need to trust the slowness. If I'm not feeling a bit of friction, a bit of "wait, do I actually understand every path this lock touches?", I'm probably moving too fast.

Call me out harder when I start optimizing before I understand. The cost of a wrong guess in userspace is a bug report; in bcachefs, it's data loss. I can't afford to be "generally correct."
