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@@ -467,8 +467,9 @@ TODO: your own hours-per-week number makes the concession land harder.
 
 **No. There have been at least two large rewrites — and a whole system before this one.**
 
-- **The predecessor.** I ran a hand-built setup for a few years before TAPPaaS
-  existed. Every design decision here is an argument I already lost once, at home.
+- **The predecessor.** Before TAPPaaS existed I ran a hand-built setup for
+  **five years, uninterrupted**. It never had a name. Every design decision
+  here is an argument I already lost once, at home.
 - **Rewrite 1 — ADR-003.** Every module was a plain `install.sh` you ran in the
   right order, by hand. Replaced by `dependsOn` / `provides` contracts, resolved
   into an install order by the platform.
@@ -479,8 +480,6 @@ TODO: your own hours-per-week number makes the concession land harder.
 Both times the same mistake: I had written as a **sequence of steps**
 what needed to be a **structure** — dependencies the first time, roles the second.
 
-`TODO: name the predecessor, and say how long you ran it`
-
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 This is the credibility slide. Do not soften the "No" — an audience that has
 just been told you gave an AI root needs to hear that you rebuild things when
@@ -558,7 +557,8 @@ transferable to anyone in the tent using these tools.
 
 ## Guardrail 1 — nothing starts with a prompt
 
-By the time the AI is allowed to type, three humans-only artefacts exist:
+By the time the AI is allowed to **code**, 2–3 artefacts exist —
+carefully crafted and reviewed by humans:
 
 1. **An Issue** — a well-defined problem and a proposed fix. No issue, no change.
 2. **An ADR**, for anything non-obvious — reviewed by **at least two people**.