Notes on 2025-05-21 rfc. Picked back up after the last review.
Related: 2026-09-21 wiki, 2025-05-21 retrieval.
Cross-section thread: raw long-term 8495. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Design review → value → metric. Worth a second pass; the design review angle keeps coming back.
- Vector → value → candidate. Worth a second pass; the vector angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.