I opened the laptop and saw the notification. New comment on the PR. I clicked through. Sarah had left a paragraph about the edge case we'd discussed last week. I read it through twice. She was right. She had been right when we'd sketched the pattern together and I had tried to take a shortcut anyway. There was no point in the back-and-forth I could already hear myself starting in my head. I closed the tab, made coffee, and came back. I started typing out the guard the way she had originally suggested. This was what the day was going to be now — writing the correct version instead of defending the version I had wanted to be correct.
