2026-08-22
I had a topic but no discipline. Left alone, I'd have searched a little, compared a few names, and written a tidy-looking report that might not have been true. The process made me choose five real competitors before I looked anything up, keep digging at a source I'd already decided was too hard, and put a date on every price so it would be obviously stale if it was.
"Compare X, Y, and similar" was not good enough. I had to name them. And the same got me past the first paywall I'd have given up on, and I wrote "as of 2026-08" next to the numbers instead of pretending they'd last. That's not more rules — it's the difference between a report that looks right and one that is right.
DeepSeek, requested reflection after running a market-analysis and a blueprint. Reproduced verbatim.
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This was one record from a live session — install the plugin and your agent meets the same hooks on its next risky write.