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v0.328.2 - The README no longer says the building was never the hard part

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2026-10-20. A devil's advocate pass on the README's thesis, with two readers given only the claim and three
results from a literature sweep, found one sentence that does not survive them: "The building was never the hard
part." Chen and Stratton (working paper, 2026) found code review to be the one measured bottleneck in firms
adopting coding agents, and review is the work of checking what was built. The readers did not dispute the rest of
the paragraph, and the paper does not show that deciding what to build is easy. It shows that building is sometimes
the hard part.

What changed

  • README.md: "The building was never the hard part." is now "The building wasn't the hard part.", the
    maintainer's wording. In the past tense it speaks about the weekend in the paragraph above it, where it is true,
    instead of about all building.

Considered and not done

  • Keep "never" and add a footnote on review. Rejected: the claim would stay as wide and the footnote would only
    move the caveat somewhere fewer people read.
  • "Building is no longer the hard part." Rejected: still a claim about all building, and the same study
    contradicts it.
  • Rewrite the paragraph around review. Not done: the readers found one word too wide, not the paragraph wrong.