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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.