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Day 39 — SOP Review
Read my own SOP back as if I'd never met myself. Found 24 gaps in a document I'd spent six days writing.
Two patterns did most of the damage.
Contradictions from my own edits. Day 36 tightened a threshold. Day 37 changed a rule. Day 38 moved a deadline. Every time the later section was right — and the earlier one still said the old thing. Six of those. An agent reading top to bottom hits the stale version first.
Steps that never existed. My outputs section described a screenshot. My error handling described a sync failure. Neither had a step that produced them. Six missing steps, invisible until I traced backwards.
The check that caught them: for every output and every failure mode, ask which numbered step produces this? If you can't point at one, it doesn't happen.
One more, and it stung: two tools reported success on things that hadn't happened — including my own symbol search returning 15 results, which I read as "doesn't exist." It did exist.
A negative finding needs the same verification as a positive one.
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Day 39 — SOP Review
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