Presence Is Not Evidence
Someone approved your last deploy. Maybe it was a thumbs-up on a pull request. Maybe it was a green check from a required reviewer who opened the diff, scrolled for eight seconds, and clicked “Approve.” Maybe it was your own merge after CI passed. Regardless of the ceremony’s size, the question is the same: what did that approval actually verify? Not what it was supposed to verify. What it did verify. What evidence exists that a specific risk was evaluated, a specific judgment was exercised, a specific context was held that the system could not hold on its own. ...