I applied my fix to 234 files at once. It broke 233 of them.
A mechanical sweep is one hypothesis executed N times. If the hypothesis is wrong, so is every edit.
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A hand-typed branch name skips the machinery
A branch name tidier than the generated one silently opts out of every automation that discovers work by parsing it. The naming was the interface all along.
A release is phases, not a button
Collapsing a release into one command removes the only place a person could stop it. Separate the mechanical phases from the single judgement about timing.
Signing state has exactly one owner, or it has none
Certificates, profiles and keychain state get asserted by one flow or by nobody — and a second writer stays invisible until the next build needs to sign.
Screenshots are a build artifact, not a design deliverable
Store screenshots hand-exported once become a set nobody updates. Treat them as generated output with a source, a matrix and a regeneration step.
Fixing it only in your app is how the template keeps the bug
A fix to a template-derived file is correct locally and leaves the defect in the template and every sibling project. Classify by provenance at edit time.
Version state belongs in exactly one file
A version repeated across build files, manifests and tags is one fact with several caches. Decide which copies are derived and forbid everything else.