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Seven of Swords
"The Workaround"
Swords · Process & Decisions▲ Upright +1
The clever hack that routes around the broken process. The Seven of Swords is the engineer who figured out that if you label the PR as 'documentation' it skips the four-week architecture review queue. Is it technically correct? No. Did it ship the critical security patch three weeks faster? Yes. Sometimes you work the system because the system is not working.
▽ Reversed -1
The workaround that became the architecture. Someone bypassed the deploy pipeline 'just this once' two years ago and now half the team deploys through a shell script on someone's laptop. The Seven of Swords reversed is when cleverness becomes the load-bearing wall you cannot remove.