Last month I opened my own AI coding setup and could not tell you what half of it did.

Hundreds of small rules, hooks, and helpers, added one reasonable decision at a time, until the whole thing was a museum I was afraid to touch.

Nothing in it was wrong. That was the problem.

Every piece had a good reason the day I added it. None of them ever earned a reason to leave.

So they all stayed. Forever. Quietly piling up.