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engineering-method-footguns

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Debugging-method traps: run the discriminating experiment first, read build logs bottom-up, treat an empty actual as unwritten, audit shared handles before removing a feature, read commit history critically. Use when a fix is not converging.

When to use

• Debugging-method traps
• Running discriminating experiments
• Reading build logs bottom-up
• Auditing shared handles before removing a feature
• Reading commit history critically
• Sequencing XML-to-Compose migrations
• Writing agent skills
• Maintaining changelogs as war stories

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