🔧 The rules were written down. Nobody followed them. Then CI went red on day one

My project's docs had rules.

"One document, one responsibility." "Split anything over 45 lines."
I wrote that. The day before yesterday.

Here's how that was going.


Folders with no README (no index): 25 out of 37
The folder holding our engineering rules: 11 files, zero index
Documents breaking the 45-line rule: 47
Largest offender: 1,203...