Business Adjacent · Flight Log · FL-005
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Green gates are necessary, not sufficient
Signal
Deploy gates passed structure while live upload still failed on real behavior.
Wrong turn
Treat a green CI board as proof the product works.
Correction
Live end-to-end is truth. Server-side probes first, then UI. Welcome the re-audit.
Structure checks catch classes of mistakes. They do not play a video, click cancel mid-upload, or open a guest link on Safari.
The discipline is behavioral proof: run the path for real. A mid-session re-audit that finds defects every gate missed is a gift, not a failure of process.
We later encoded part of this as automated live probes for the customer host — still incomplete versus full human craft, but the principle no longer lives only as a note in a memory file.