Mosthofa Imran: RevisionsEvery substantive edit to an existing paperhttps://mosthofaimran.com/revisions.xml2026-09-04T00:00:00ZMosthofa Imrandraft-imran-data-is-missing-02: "The Data Is Missing" Is Not a Diagnosistag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/data-is-missing/022026-09-04T00:00:00ZConfidence adopted by the author; the drafter note is removed. Erratum 7.43.draft-imran-data-is-missing-01: "The Data Is Missing" Is Not a Diagnosistag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/data-is-missing/012026-09-04T00:00:00ZRetitled and given a figure after a reading pass. Erratum 7.40.draft-imran-data-is-missing-00: "The Data Is Missing" Is Not a Diagnosistag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/data-is-missing/002026-09-04T00:00:00ZFirst publication.draft-imran-three-halves-02: A Capability Has Three Halvestag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/three-halves/022026-09-04T00:00:00ZConfidence adopted by the author; the drafter note is removed. Erratum 7.43.draft-imran-three-halves-01: A Capability Has Three Halvestag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/three-halves/012026-09-04T00:00:00ZRetitled and given a figure after a reading pass. Erratum 7.40.draft-imran-three-halves-00: A Capability Has Three Halvestag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/three-halves/002026-09-04T00:00:00ZFirst publication.draft-imran-concurrency-one-00: Measured at Concurrency Onetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/concurrency-one/002026-09-01T00:00:00ZPublished. The two examples move in opposite directions, which is the reason the paper is about operating points rather than about scepticism. Confidence after: 0.9.draft-imran-harness-half-the-solver-00: The Harness Is Half the Solvertag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/harness-half-the-solver/002026-09-01T00:00:00ZPublished. Three measurements, one of them the author's own reading of a vendor's caveat rather than the vendor's headline. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-judge-grading-prose-00: The Judge Is Grading Prosetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/judge-grading-prose/002026-09-01T00:00:00ZPublished. Two independent results, arrived at by different methods, that turn out to be the same finding. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-reading-a-benchmark-00: How to Read a Benchmark Numbertag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/reading-a-benchmark/002026-09-01T00:00:00ZPublished. The central example is a vendor retiring a benchmark its own models led, which is a stronger source than any critic. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-pinned-the-version-00: You Pinned the Version, Not the Termstag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/pinned-the-version/002026-09-01T00:00:00ZPublished. Three examples, all from a single fortnight, which is either a coincidence or the point. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-transcript-is-not-a-log-00: An Agent Transcript Is Not a Logtag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/transcript-is-not-a-log/002026-09-01T00:00:00ZPublished. The whole argument comes from one primary source and the agents' own quoted reasoning is the load-bearing evidence. Confidence after: 0.9.draft-imran-competence-porn-05: Competence Theatretag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/052026-08-31T00:00:00ZRetitled from "Competence Porn" at the author's request, and expanded. Section 8 added: assembly as a second mechanism producing the same false signal, compressed from paper 5.2, which remains the long form. Section 1 gained a paragraph naming both doors. Nothing was renumbered, because the headings carry the published anchors. A retirement condition was added for the unified claim. Confidence unchanged: the section develops the claim rather than strengthening its evidence, which is the same reason given on 2026-08-14. See erratum 7.8. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-cost-per-token-00: Cost Per Token Is Not Costtag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/cost-per-token/002026-08-31T00:00:00ZPublished. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-soc2-120-days-01: SOC 2 in 120 Daystag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/soc2-120-days/012026-08-31T00:00:00ZSection 3 redrawn. The timeline is now a drawn figure rather than an ASCII one, and the proportional bar chart beside it is dropped because the drawing carries the proportions itself. Section 1 gained the envelope table and section 8 was corrected on the author's own evidence. No claim and no confidence value moved. Confidence after: 0.65.draft-imran-soc2-120-days-00: SOC 2 in 120 Daystag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/soc2-120-days/002026-08-31T00:00:00ZFirst publication. Written as a plan rather than a postmortem, and the abstract says so. Confidence set at 0.65 because the adjacent work is mine and the report is not yet. Confidence after: 0.65.draft-imran-soc2-scope-hack-01: The Only SOC 2 Hack Is Scopetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/soc2-scope-hack/012026-08-31T00:00:00ZEditorial pass, same day, after the author flagged the prose. The draft leaned on a two-beat construction, a claim followed by its own negation, about a dozen times, which reads as rhythm standing in for explanation. Each one is replaced with the concrete thing that actually happens. No claim, figure, retirement condition or confidence value moved, so this is a revision to the writing rather than to the argument. Confidence after: 0.6.draft-imran-soc2-scope-hack-00: The Only SOC 2 Hack Is Scopetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/soc2-scope-hack/002026-08-31T00:00:00ZFirst publication. Written as a companion to 5.15: that paper is the schedule, this one is the scope. Confidence 0.60, lower than 5.15, because the cost argument in Section 4 is the part I have watched rather than measured. Confidence after: 0.6.draft-imran-vibe-coding-02: Vibe Coding and the IKEA Effecttag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vibe-coding/022026-08-31T00:00:00ZA pointer added under the abstract naming 5.1 as the general argument, after 5.1 absorbed this mechanism as its Section 8. Nothing in the argument changed and the confidence did not move. The link is stated in the text because seeAlso is only carried in the machine-readable surfaces, so a reader on this page could not see it. Confidence after: 0.75.draft-imran-algorithmic-homophily-02: Algorithmic Homophilytag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/algorithmic-homophily/022026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written out in full. The August correction is carried into Section 3, which is marked as under rewrite and retained rather than replaced. The observation and the explanation are now stated separately, because only the explanation failed. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged at 0.60. Confidence after: 0.6.draft-imran-chestertons-fence-01: Chesterton's Fence Has a Git Blametag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/chestertons-fence/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: the decay ladder, the obligation on the author, the instrument-then-remove procedure, and the objection that this makes deletion too expensive. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-competence-porn-04: Competence Theatretag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/042026-08-14T00:00:00ZSections 3, 4 and 5 written. They had been outlined and left unwritten since first publication, which is a longer gap than the argument deserved. Confidence unchanged: the new sections develop the claim rather than strengthen its evidence. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-dashboard-nobody-opens-01: The Dashboard Nobody Openstag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/dashboard-nobody-opens/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: why bottom-up construction fails, the five triage questions, the construction rule and the ninety-second test, and the over-fitting objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.75.draft-imran-easy-button-tax-01: The Easy Button Taxtag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/easy-button-tax/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: the three transfers, the three diagnostic tests, the disclosure practice and the objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-kubernetes-for-a-bicycle-01: Kubernetes for a Bicycletag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/kubernetes-for-a-bicycle/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: what the fixed cost is actually made of, the ladder and its triggers, and the ecosystem objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.7.draft-imran-on-prem-01: On-Premise Is Not a Downgradetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/on-prem/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: the assumption ledger, the three payoffs, the rule set and the objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.9.draft-imran-postmortem-owes-you-01: What a Postmortem Owes Youtag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/postmortem-owes-you/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: the three failure modes, the four obligations, and the culturally expensive part. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.9.draft-imran-retry-storm-01: The Retry Storm You Built On Purposetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/retry-storm/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: mechanism, amplification, the production signature, the remedy and the objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.95.draft-imran-service-boundaries-org-chart-01: Your Service Boundaries Are an Org Charttag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/service-boundaries-org-chart/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: where the convergence shows first, why the architecture document loses, the inverse manoeuvre, and the objection about sample size and causal direction. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-rag-search-01: RAG Is a Search Problem in a Trench Coattag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/rag-search/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: where the losses enter the pipeline, the recall measurement that makes the argument decidable, the order of work, and the long-context objection. Retirement conditions added. Scoped deliberately narrower than the retracted 5.10; see erratum 7.2. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.7.draft-imran-ship-of-theseus-01: The Ship of Theseus Passes Its Integration Teststag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/ship-of-theseus/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written and published as a draft. The mechanism is stated, the evidence is thin, and the objection in Section 5 is unanswered. Open questions listed in Section 6 rather than hidden. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.55.draft-imran-vector-db-fad-02: Vector Databases Are a Fadtag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vector-db-fad/022026-08-14T00:00:00ZOriginal text restored to this page, struck through, per the rule that nothing here is deleted. Section 5 added, stating what actually failed. Section 6 states the narrower claim that survived. The retraction itself is unchanged and remains in force.draft-imran-vibe-coding-01: Vibe Coding and the IKEA Effecttag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vibe-coding/012026-08-14T00:00:00ZText written: the three kinds of knowledge, why the confidence signal misfires, the four practices, and the library objection. Retirement conditions added. Confidence unchanged. Confidence after: 0.75.draft-imran-ship-of-theseus-00: The Ship of Theseus Passes Its Integration Teststag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/ship-of-theseus/002026-08-09T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.55.draft-imran-algorithmic-homophily-01: Algorithmic Homophilytag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/algorithmic-homophily/012026-08-02T00:00:00ZConfidence downgraded from 0.80 to 0.60. Two readers showed the effect reproduces in private mailing lists with no ranking algorithm present, which breaks the proposed mechanism. See erratum 7.1. Section 3 is under rewrite and says so at the top. Confidence after: 0.6.draft-imran-retry-storm-00: The Retry Storm You Built On Purposetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/retry-storm/002026-07-28T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.95.draft-imran-competence-porn-03: Competence Theatretag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/032026-06-11T00:00:00ZSection 6 rewritten after a correction from a reader in bank operations. The effect is strongest where tooling is locked down rather than where it is abundant, which narrows the mechanism. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-vibe-coding-00: Vibe Coding and the IKEA Effecttag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/vibe-coding/002026-05-02T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.75.draft-imran-easy-button-tax-00: The Easy Button Taxtag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/easy-button-tax/002026-04-20T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-on-prem-00: On-Premise Is Not a Downgradetag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/on-prem/002026-03-19T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.9.draft-imran-chestertons-fence-00: Chesterton's Fence Has a Git Blametag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/chestertons-fence/002026-02-14T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-competence-porn-02: Competence Theatretag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/competence-porn/022026-02-08T00:00:00ZRetirement conditions added. They should have shipped with the first version, and their absence is itself an instance of the thing this paper is about.draft-imran-rag-search-00: RAG Is a Search Problem in a Trench Coattag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/rag-search/002026-01-30T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.7.draft-imran-algorithmic-homophily-00: Algorithmic Homophilytag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:revisions/algorithmic-homophily/002026-01-12T00:00:00ZPublished. Confidence after: 0.8.draft-imran-postmortem-owes-you-00: What a Postmortem Owes Youtag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/postmortem-owes-you/002025-12-02T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.9.draft-imran-competence-porn-01: Competence Theatretag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/competence-porn/012025-11-22T00:00:00ZA passage about bootcamp graduates removed. It was unsupported and aimed at the wrong people.draft-imran-vector-db-fad-01: Vector Databases Are a Fadtag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/vector-db-fad/012025-11-14T00:00:00ZRetracted in full. Text retained, struck through, with the reason attached. See erratum 7.2.draft-imran-service-boundaries-org-chart-00: Your Service Boundaries Are an Org Charttag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/service-boundaries-org-chart/002025-09-18T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.85.draft-imran-competence-porn-00: Competence Theatretag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/competence-porn/002025-09-03T00:00:00ZPublished. Confidence after: 0.7.draft-imran-dashboard-nobody-opens-00: The Dashboard Nobody Openstag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/dashboard-nobody-opens/002025-06-05T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.75.draft-imran-vector-db-fad-00: Vector Databases Are a Fadtag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/vector-db-fad/002025-05-20T00:00:00ZPublished at confidence 0.65.draft-imran-kubernetes-for-a-bicycle-00: Kubernetes for a Bicycletag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:revisions/kubernetes-for-a-bicycle/002025-03-11T00:00:00ZListed in Section 5 with a title, a summary and a confidence value. No text. Confidence after: 0.7.