diff --git a/frontend/src/components/articles.js b/frontend/src/components/articles.js
index ed9c8d7..a8712d5 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/articles.js
+++ b/frontend/src/components/articles.js
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ const ARTICLES = [
       { h4: 'Lessons learned' },
       { ul: [
         'Technical debt always collects eventually — CAST Software put the global backlog at 61 billion person-days of remediation work in 2025. Waiting for "someday" budget stops being a viable strategy',
-        'Engineering pragmatism beats perfectionism — the purist fix was upgrading the provisioner; the pragmatic one was the proxy, and it delivered business value while managing risk safely',
+        'Engineering pragmatism beats perfectionism — but only when paired with documentation and an exit plan. The purist fix was upgrading the provisioner; the pragmatic one was the proxy. What made it safe wasn\'t just choosing pragmatism, it was documenting the workaround clearly and defining the path back toward the "perfect" solution — so the shortcut never became a permanent blind spot',
         'The proxy/sidecar pattern became a standard — decoupled proxies are now a default part of every container architecture we design, not a one-off workaround',
         'AI as an accelerator, not a replacement for judgment — AI tools sped up troubleshooting the handshake failure and generating precise proxy configs, but the engineering call to make was still ours',
       ]},