Adventures in UVLM-Style Phaselocking…

Not that the apprentices were dim. They were often brilliant. One could read a memo, extract a schema, draft a patch, and produce a validation plan before a human had finished deciding whether the coffee was helping or merely participating. Another could critique the first with the chilly courtesy of a statistician finding a hidden variable. A third could write a report so polished that the unfinished machine began to look, briefly and dangerously, complete.