Codeuteronomy

Proverbs

VI

Adversarial review

Every plan deserves a critic with no stake in it. The machine will play one, but only if you ask.

The tenth law scales past your own drafts: every plan that will spend other people's time deserves a critic with no stake in it, and the machine will play that critic well, but only if the review is staged honestly. A model reviewing the plan it helped write, inside the session that wrote it, is a defendant reviewing its own case. Fresh session, no authorship, explicit instructions to attack: that is a review.

For plans that matter, make the review a panel. One pass graded against your stated principles, one hunting for the constraint nobody mentioned, one asked bluntly why this fails. Grade against the rubric, not the intention; the reviewer who knows what you meant will find that you meant well. Then reconcile the passes yourself, because synthesis is the steward's half of the job.

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