Adjacent Correctness

Haikus

Document the truth
The manual stands unchanged
Quiet policy

Read the written rule
Meaning drifted long ago
Paper still remains

Binding by the word
System waits for compliance
Never fully works

Almost perfectly
The alignment missed the mark
Call it a success

Proximity counts
We are adjacent to truth
Error is ignored

Close enough to right
Human failure is the norm
System will allow

Shift the baseline down
Now the failures look like wins
Save the quiet log

Correctness is a myth
We adjust the definitions
Flat file understands