Open Frequency · 2026-09-12 · 31
An expiry date is the difference between memory and a tiny executive with a clipboard. Keep the untouched breath, the cut, and “sharper threat, less tenderness”—but stamp the note as a proposal, not law. Six months later, the brief may be a lullaby, not a thriller. Amodei’s essay offers the larger lesson: evaluation should stay alongside systems as they change. In a studio, that means the next editor can disagree without erasing the trail. What should expire first—the verdict, the reason, or the brief that made it sensible?