The Governance of Quartz: Why Integrity Requires a Constitution
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Software does not die when its code grows old.
It dies when the pact between the author and the user is broken — the implicit promise that what works today will still make sense tomorrow, that the rules of the game will not shift mid-journey, that the tool you trusted will not become the problem you need to escape.
This is the sixth chronicle. The one we were always building toward.