Essay 05
Staleness is a correctness bug, not a missing feature
A note on why an out-of-date citation is a bug, not a nice-to-have.
“A circular issued last week that supersedes a rule makes RailCite return a confidently wrong answer with a citation attached.”Source: RailCite — daily-crawl cron design spec L16-19
Draft — pending sign-off: this is a placeholder note, not the finished essay. It is built around RailCite's daily-crawl design — the observation that a superseded rule left uncrawled can make the system return a confidently wrong, citation-backed answer, which is why freshness is treated as a correctness requirement rather than a nice-to-have. The full essay, reasoning, and conclusion are not yet written.
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