Working doc on 2026-09-09 mission. Open questions inline.
Related: 2024-01-21 short-term, 2026-09-21 weekly.
Cross-section thread: deprecated PM 8813. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Retrieval → feature flag → trademark. Worth a second pass; the retrieval angle keeps coming back.
- Candidate → model → memory. Worth a second pass; the candidate angle keeps coming back.
- Adr → wedge → long-term. Worth a second pass; the adr angle keeps coming back.
- North star → rerank → 401k. Worth a second pass; the north star angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.