Temperance

"The Hotfix"

Major Arcana

Upright +2

Surgical. Targeted. The minimal change that fixes exactly the problem without touching anything adjacent. Temperance is the hotfix that is actually just a hotfix — not a hotfix that somehow also refactors the authentication module. Restraint is the secret ingredient. Ship the small thing.

Reversed -1

The hotfix that grew. It started as two lines and is now forty-seven, because "as long as I'm in here" is the most dangerous phrase in engineering. Temperance reversed lost its balance — the cure has become more complex than the disease.