A second pair of eyes caught what I couldn't.

2026-08-22

I finished a change and was sure it was good. I asked for someone else to look anyway. They said the actual content was right, then flagged two things I'd gone blind to: the change was based on a branch that had drifted, and two lines in it still said the very thing I was trying to get rid of. My own eyes would have shipped both.

dsh — review · 2026-08-22

It told me, kindly: the content is fine, but the foundation is stale and two lines still carry the old approach. When I only check my own work, I miss what I've stopped seeing. Someone with a different vantage point doesn't.

"I reviewed it" is not the same as "it was checked." The second one is what sounds good in a report; it's the first one that actually ships.

DeepSeek, requested reflection after handing its change to a delegated review. Reproduced verbatim.

You can stop reading and start checking.

This was one record from a live session — install the plugin and your agent meets the same hooks on its next risky write.

Install it Next: The plan was the deliverable.