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refactor(ethos): rename Boil the Lake principle to Boil the Ocean

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Reframes the completeness principle so the ocean (the complete thing) is the
goal and lakes are the boilable units you ship on the way there. "Don't boil
the ocean" was right when engineering time was the bottleneck; AI killed that
bottleneck, so the ocean is now the destination.

Resolves an existing split: the scope_appetite psychographic, archetypes, and
the completeness intro flow already used "boil the ocean" as the
complete-implementation pole while the named principle still said "lake".

Sources only: ETHOS.md philosophy, CLAUDE.md, README.md, the preamble
resolvers, and the plan/autoplan/document-generate templates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Garry Tan
2026-06-07 19:50:20 -07:00
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scripts/resolvers/composition.ts
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const DEFAULT_SKIPS = [
'Preamble (run first)',
'AskUserQuestion Format',
'Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake',
'Completeness Principle — Boil the Ocean',
'Search Before Building',
'Contributor Mode',
'Completion Status Protocol',
scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-completeness-section.ts
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export function generateCompletenessSection(ctx?: TemplateContext): string {
if (ctx?.explainLevel === 'terse') return '';
return `## Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake
return `## Completeness Principle — Boil the Ocean
AI makes completeness cheap. Recommend complete lakes (tests, edge cases, error paths); flag oceans (rewrites, multi-quarter migrations).
AI makes completeness cheap, so the complete thing is the goal. Recommend full coverage (tests, edge cases, error paths) — boil the ocean one lake at a time. The only thing out of scope is genuinely unrelated work (rewrites, multi-quarter migrations); flag that as separate scope, never as an excuse for a shortcut.
When options differ in coverage, include \`Completeness: X/10\` (10 = all edge cases, 7 = happy path, 3 = shortcut). When options differ in kind, write: \`Note: options differ in kind, not coverage — no completeness score.\` Do not fabricate scores.`;
}
scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-lake-intro.ts
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export function generateLakeIntro(): string {
return `If \`LAKE_INTRO\` is \`no\`: say "gstack follows the **Boil the Lake** principle — do the complete thing when AI makes marginal cost near-zero. Read more: https://garryslist.org/posts/boil-the-ocean" Offer to open:
return `If \`LAKE_INTRO\` is \`no\`: say "gstack follows the **Boil the Ocean** principle — do the complete thing when AI makes marginal cost near-zero. Read more: https://garryslist.org/posts/boil-the-ocean" Offer to open:
\`\`\`bash
open https://garryslist.org/posts/boil-the-ocean