No Workarounds The Fundamental Law A workaround is any change that makes a problem stop manifesting without addressing why the problem exists. Workarounds are not fixes. They are deferred failures with compound interest. Philosophical foundation: Read for the engineering principles behind this skill, drawn from Toyota's Jidoka, Fowler's Technical Debt Quadrant, Torvalds' "good taste," and the Broken Windows Theory. The Workaround Detection Gate The Seven Categories of Workarounds Category 1 — TYPE: Type System Evasion The signal being silenced: The type system is telling the code is wrong. Ga…