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Garry Tan dc140fe8ce docs: harden ON_THE_LOC_CONTROVERSY against Cramer + neckbeard critiques
Reframes the thesis as "engineers can fly now" (amplification, not
replacement) and fortifies the soft spots critics will attack.

Added:
- Flight-thesis opener: pilot vs walker, leverage not replacement.
- Second deflation layer for AI verbosity (on top of NCLOC). Headline
  moves from 810x to 408x after generous 2x AI-boilerplate cut, with
  explicit sensitivity analysis showing the number is still large under
  pessimistic priors (5x → 162x, 10x → 81x, 100x impossible).
- Weekly distribution check (kills "you had one burst week" attack).
- Revert rate (2.0%) and post-merge fix rate (6.3%) with OSS
  comparables (K8s/Rails/Django band). Addresses "where are your error
  rates" directly.
- Named production adoption signals (gstack 1000+ installs, gbrain beta,
  resend_robot paying API) with explicit concession that "shipped != used
  at scale" for most of the corpus.
- Harder steelman: 5 specific concessions with quantified pivot points
  (e.g., "if 2013 baseline was 3.5x higher, 810x → 228x, still high").

Removed factual error: Posterous acquisition paragraph (Garry had already
left Posterous by 2011, so the "Twitter bought our private repos" excuse
for the 2013 corpus gap doesn't apply).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 12:36:00 +08:00
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