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CI enforcement of doc rules backfires with 63 violations on day one
A developer wrote rules for documentation, including a 45-line limit, but found 47 documents breaking it, with the worst at 1,203 lines. When CI enforcement landed, it flagged 63 violations, forcing a choice between fixing all or adding an ignore list. The author argues that ignoring existing violations creates a second source of truth that never shrinks, while fixing all blocks improvements like typo fixes.
Meridian48 take
The piece highlights a classic engineering tension: automated enforcement can punish incremental improvement unless it only checks new or worsened violations.
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The rules were written down. Nobody followed them. Then CI went red on day one →
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