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Self-Annealing

operations

When something breaks, fix it and update the instructions so it never breaks that way again.

What it does

The feedback loop that makes your system antifragile — it gets stronger from every failure.

Without it

Same errors happen again and again. Fixes are forgotten. The system never improves.

Scary → Normal

"Implement a self-annealing feedback loop" → "When something breaks, write down the fix so it never breaks that way again."

Introduced in Stage 3