fix(website): remove a fabricated anecdote from the 0.1.0 post - #1076
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The Airworthiness section closed on "I verified every one of those before writing this sentence, which is more than I can say for the first draft of the homepage checklist. Three claims did not survive that pass, including one that was simply false." Three things wrong with it. It is a fabricated first-person anecdote. The detail came from a code comment in src/lib/preflight-checklist.ts recording a verification pass; rewriting it as the author's own confession about his own homepage puts words in his mouth. docs/gtm/voice.md: "Never fabricate a first-person anecdote. Warmth comes from opinion and directness, not from invented experiences." It is inside baseball. "The first draft of the homepage checklist" means nothing to a reader who has never seen the homepage checklist. It undermines the section it closes. Airworthiness exists to say the numbers are checkable. Following six trust claims with "my last list had a false claim in it" invites the reader to distrust the six bullets immediately above. The replacement points at verifiability instead, and to make that line true rather than merely nicer, all six claims are now linked to the source that proves them — the HVTracker category page, the Scorecard viewer, the npm package pages, the drift workflow, and /privacy. The section now does what it always claimed to do. Numbers unchanged and not re-verified here: rank and score drift, and preflight-checklist.ts records them as verified 2026-09-04. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Airworthiness section of the live 0.1.0 post closed on this:
That should not have shipped.
Why it is wrong
It is a fabricated first-person anecdote. The detail came from a code comment in
apps/website/src/lib/preflight-checklist.tsrecording a verification pass. Rewriting it as Brian's own confession about his own homepage puts words in his mouth about his own work.docs/gtm/voice.mdis explicit: "Never fabricate a first-person anecdote. Warmth comes from opinion and directness, not from invented experiences." The voice checklist asks for a moment of warmth, and this was warmth manufactured out of someone else's notes.It is inside baseball. "The first draft of the homepage checklist" is meaningless to a reader who has never seen the homepage checklist.
It undermines the section it closes. Airworthiness exists to say the numbers are checkable. Following six trust claims with "my last list had a false claim in it" invites the reader to distrust the six bullets directly above it.
The fix
Replaced with:
That sentence was false as written — the bullets had no links — so all six claims are now linked to the source that proves them: the HVTracker category page, the Scorecard viewer, the two npm package pages, the
aimock-drift.ymlworkflow, and/privacy. The section now does what it always claimed to do, and the close is verifiable rather than confessional.The same fabrication had propagated into the Reddit and Dev.to campaign drafts; removed there in #1074.
Verification
nx test websitegreen.preflight-checklist.tsrecords them as verified 2026-09-04. Worth a re-check before the campaign posts.🤖 Generated with Claude Code