Writing Code Was Never the Hard Part

We were in UAT for a React checkout rebuild when someone said the thing that still haunts me. "Well, that's how it used to work, so we assumed it would continue to work that way." This was a completely new project. New codebase. New architecture. The new specs never defined that behavior, but the assumption felt so reasonable to them that nobody thought to ask. The project was evergreen. Fresh repository, blank slate, no inherited patterns to fall back on. The kind of greenfield project that fee