> VERIFY EVERYTHING. TRUST NOTHING.

We are developers who use AI every day.

We are not anti-AI. We are anti-carelessness.

We have seen what happens when AI is trusted without verification:

- Production databases wiped by autonomous agents

- 693 lines of hallucinated code shipped to production

- 13-hour cloud outages caused by AI "fixing" things

- Security vulnerabilities introduced silently, confidently

We have seen the data:

- Developers THINK AI makes them 24% faster.

- They are actually 19% slower.

- That is a 43-point gap between perception and reality.

[METR, 2025, randomized controlled trial, 16 devs, 246 tasks]

We believe:

1. AI makes execution easy. Judgment is what's hard.

2. The developer's value is not in writing code. It's in designing systems that catch when the code is wrong.

3. Speed without verification is not productivity. It's debt.

4. Every AI output is a hypothesis, not a solution. Treat it as such.

5. The person who designs verification learns more than the person who generates. Verification architecture IS the skill.

Our practice:

[PLAN] Think 80%, execute 20%.

[VERIFY] 5 layers: logical, contextual, completeness, test, regression.

[CONTEXT] Context is the #1 skill. Manage it obsessively.

[STOP] Pull the andon cord when something feels wrong. It's not failure. It's professional duty.

[LEARN] Document everything. Your self-learning document compounds forever.

The Stoics called it premeditatio malorum — pre-meditation of evils.

Toyota called it jidoka — automation with a human touch.

Aviation called it CRM — crew resource management.

Martial arts called it shu ha ri — follow, break, transcend.

We call it paranoid verification.

Same behavior. Different era. Same result: things that don't break.

In the age of vibe coding, we teach deliberate verification.

In the age of speed, we teach thoroughness.

In the age of AI-generated everything, we teach the irreplaceable human skill:

> Making the machine prove itself right.