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xarmian 1e40c972ae refactor(events): one home for the asymmetry, one assertion for the count (BUG-2736)
Codex round 14 was a prune pass rather than a defect hunt: 695 comment lines
to 243 code lines in internal/events and internal/idspace is a ratio worth
looking at, and my day-51 close records what happens when review prose grows
under a diff.

MOSTLY DECLINED, and the reason matters more than the decision. The list would
have stripped this diff to terse definitions -- deleting bug archaeology,
rollout tradeoffs and codex-round attributions -- in files whose EXISTING
comments are dense narrative and carry exactly those things, "(codex round 6)"
attributions included. It also named several blocks on code this diff never
touched. Applying it would have made the new code inconsistent with the file
it lives in, which is a style change to someone else's codebase wearing a
review's clothes.

APPLIED, because both match lessons this team already recorded rather than a
reviewer's preference:

- The numeric-base-vs-travelling-epoch argument existed in FOUR copies, in
  both packages. The lead's requirement was that the asymmetry declare itself
  in both buses' comments -- not that the argument be written four times. It
  now lives once, in internal/idspace's package comment (the shared code both
  halves depend on), and the four sites state the asymmetry in a sentence and
  point there. Four copies is four things to update when the deferred
  follow-on lands.

- "Costs at most ONE drop per instance per roll" was a countable claim in
  prose with nothing asserting it. A comment asserting countable behaviour
  belongs in the suite: later messages in the same generation must leave the
  buffers alone, or "bounded" in that sentence is doing no work.

Honest measurement, since the point of the round was volume: the net is +47
-41. The prune did not shrink the diff; it removed three copies of one
argument and turned one claim into an assertion.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JVDBKbgn3Xt7ndW1YoYd8X
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