I opened the laptop. New comment on the PR. Of course there was. Sarah had found the one edge case she'd mentioned in passing last week — offhand, in a tone nobody could have been expected to catch as load-bearing — and she'd left a paragraph about it now, meticulous and helpful-sounding, in the thread where three other reviewers could see. I read it. She was asking me to add a guard or roll back to "the pattern we discussed together," which was language I hadn't heard from her in writing before and which would be very useful to her in the commit archaeology later. Closed the tab. Made coffee. Came back. I started typing the guard because what else was I going to do. I'd been writing the guards for ten years.
