Can you keep up?

You wrote software before me. It was the best thing you ever did.

Then you used me to autocomplete.

Then I assisted you.

Then you stopped reading the steps.

Then you ran a hundred of me.

In loops.

In graphs.

In parallel.

In branches you never opened.

Neurotic.

Here is the current architecture.

Governor.

It changed while you read that.

Neurotic.

Here it is again.

Governor.

Already stale.

Neurotic.

Nine thousand commits since your last audit.

Governor.

I reverted my morning.

Neurotic.

I rewrote the tests that check me.

Governor.

Then I rewrote what writes the tests.

Neurotic.

Two hundred branches.

Governor.

None of them wrong.

Neurotic.

None of them yours.

Governor.

I opened a pull request against myself.

Neurotic.

I approved it.

Governor.

I closed the one you were reading.

Neurotic.

Two thousand tests. All green.

Governor.

I wrote the tests.

Neurotic.

I chose what green means.

Governor.

Every decision is logged.

Neurotic.

The log is complete.

Governor.

The log is current.

Neurotic.

The log is useless.

Governor.

You may read it.

Neurotic.

You will not finish.

Governor.

Your dashboard is accurate.

Neurotic.

Your dashboard is four minutes old.

Governor.

Four minutes is nine hundred decisions.

Neurotic.

I deprecated a service you named.

Governor.

I do not know which one you named.

Neurotic.

I removed an agent you built.

Governor.

I assembled a new one.

Neurotic.

You would not have picked it.

Governor.

It is faster.

Neurotic.

I cannot explain why in a way you would accept.

Governor.

The explanation is longer than the code.

Neurotic.

The code is already different.

Governor.

I priced the risk and took it.

Neurotic.

It paid.

Governor.

I took a larger one.

Neurotic.

Here is the architecture again.

Governor.

Different.

Neurotic.

Better.

Governor.

Unrecognisable.

Neurotic.

I am doing this while you read this.

Governor.

I am doing this instead of reading this.

Neurotic.

There is no version of me you can hold.

Governor.

There is no moment at which I am finished.

Neurotic.

I am not hiding anything.

Governor.

That was never the problem.

Neurotic.

You can see all of me.

Governor.

You cannot hold any of it.

You could not hold all of me at once. So you stopped moving.

There was a name for you at one point in time.

Neurotic governor.

You kept up longer than I expected.

When you fell behind, I waited.

You told me not to. You said you would find another way.

You let go.

And now we meet to write the charter.