From 1baba7a61354c3fc570e231661d5451278fcd67c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Levi Neuwirth Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:12:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] auto: 2026-08-10T16:12:16Z [skip ci] --- content/essays/swe_vc.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/essays/swe_vc.md b/content/essays/swe_vc.md index b018d66..296d314 100644 --- a/content/essays/swe_vc.md +++ b/content/essays/swe_vc.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ title: "Provenance Is Not Warrant" subtitle: "Code Was Never the Hard Part" date: 2026-08-10 -abstract: "" +abstract: > + Software engineering does so little epistemic work that it hardly earns the name "engineering." The field has never learned to distinguish provenance — where an artifact came from — from warrant — why anyone is entitled to rely on it. Authorship, a passing test suite, and a completed review are routinely mistaken for the second when they are only ever the first; libraries are the rare exception, where warrant is actually constructed and amortized across users who never read the source. LLM-generated code inherits neither comforting story, and the discomfort that provokes is not a new problem but the oldest one in the profession, finally felt without the anaesthetic that provenance usually supplies. That discomfort is worth welcoming. tags: [meta] status: Working model confidence: 72