Refine lessons-learned point on pragmatism vs perfectionism

Clarify that the proxy workaround was safe because it was documented
with a clear exit plan back to the proper fix, not just because
pragmatism was chosen over the purist approach.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ const ARTICLES = [
{ h4: 'Lessons learned' }, { h4: 'Lessons learned' },
{ ul: [ { 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', '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', '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', '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',
]}, ]},