Engineering Manifesto

1. Production-grade is the standard. Handle edge cases, fail gracefully, and show users a helpful message instead of a white screen.

2. Cost-efficiency is an architecture choice. Use free tiers and simple tools until the problem genuinely needs more.

3. Direct communication. When reporting an issue: the error log, the reproduction steps, and a proposed fix.

4. Documentation is code. A project without a README is hard to hand over.