Every substantive edit to an existing paper https://mosthofaimran.com/revisions.xml 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z Mosthofa Imran tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/algorithmic-homophily/02 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written out in full. The August correction is carried into Section 3, which is marked as under rewrite and retained rather than replaced. The observation and the explanation are now stated separately, because only the explanation failed. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged at 0.60. Confidence after: 0.6.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/chestertons-fence/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: the decay ladder, the obligation on the author, the instrument-then-remove procedure, and the objection that this makes deletion too expensive. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.8.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/04 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sections 3, 4 and 5 written. They had been outlined and left unwritten since first publication, which is a longer gap than the argument deserved. Confidence unchanged: the new sections develop the claim rather than strengthen its evidence. Confidence after: 0.8.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/dashboard-nobody-opens/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: why bottom-up construction fails, the five triage questions, the construction rule and the ninety-second test, and the over-fitting objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.75.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/easy-button-tax/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: the three transfers, the three diagnostic tests, the disclosure practice and the objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.85.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/on-prem/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: the assumption ledger, the three payoffs, the rule set and the objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.9.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/kubernetes-for-a-bicycle/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: what the fixed cost is actually made of, the ladder and its triggers, and the ecosystem objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.7.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/postmortem-owes-you/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: the three failure modes, the four obligations, and the culturally expensive part. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.9.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/rag-search/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: where the losses enter the pipeline, the recall measurement that makes the argument decidable, the order of work, and the long-context objection. Retirement conditions added. Scoped deliberately narrower than the retracted 5.10; see erratum 7.2. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.7.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/retry-storm/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: mechanism, amplification, the production signature, the remedy and the objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.95.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/service-boundaries-org-chart/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: where the convergence shows first, why the architecture document loses, the inverse manoeuvre, and the objection about sample size and causal direction. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.85.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/ship-of-theseus/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written and published as a draft. The mechanism is stated, the evidence is thin, and the objection in Section 5 is unanswered. Open questions listed in Section 6 rather than hidden. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.55.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vector-db-fad/02 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Original text restored to this page, struck through, per the rule that nothing here is deleted. Section 5 added, stating what actually failed. Section 6 states the narrower claim that survived. The retraction itself is unchanged and remains in force.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vibe-coding/01 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text written: the three kinds of knowledge, why the confidence signal misfires, the four practices, and the library objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.75.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/ship-of-theseus/00 2026-08-09T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.55.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/algorithmic-homophily/01 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z

Confidence downgraded from 0.80 to 0.60. Two readers showed the effect reproduces in private mailing lists with no ranking algorithm present, which breaks the proposed mechanism. See erratum 7.1. Section 3 is under rewrite and says so at the top. Confidence after: 0.6.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/retry-storm/00 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.95.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/03 2026-06-11T00:00:00Z

Section 6 rewritten after a correction from a reader in bank operations. The effect is strongest where tooling is locked down rather than where it is abundant, which narrows the mechanism. Confidence after: 0.8.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vibe-coding/00 2026-05-02T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.75.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/easy-button-tax/00 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.85.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/on-prem/00 2026-03-19T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.9.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/chestertons-fence/00 2026-02-14T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.8.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/02 2026-02-08T00:00:00Z

Retirement conditions added. They should have shipped with the first version, and their absence is itself an instance of the thing this paper is about.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/rag-search/00 2026-01-30T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.7.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/algorithmic-homophily/00 2026-01-12T00:00:00Z

Published. Confidence after: 0.8.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/postmortem-owes-you/00 2025-12-02T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.9.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/competence-porn/01 2025-11-22T00:00:00Z

A passage about bootcamp graduates removed. It was unsupported and aimed at the wrong people.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/vector-db-fad/01 2025-11-14T00:00:00Z

Retracted in full. Text retained, struck through, with the reason attached. See erratum 7.2.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/service-boundaries-org-chart/00 2025-09-18T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.85.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/competence-porn/00 2025-09-03T00:00:00Z

Published. Confidence after: 0.7.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/dashboard-nobody-opens/00 2025-06-05T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.75.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/vector-db-fad/00 2025-05-20T00:00:00Z

Published at confidence 0.65.

tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/kubernetes-for-a-bicycle/00 2025-03-11T00:00:00Z

Listed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.7.