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The eyeballs get cheap: what changed in v1.1.0
From v1.0.0 (2026-10-14, bb6b171a1) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-15, this release), paragraph by paragraph.
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What will not go away is security research by people motivated to find what the tools miss, domain experts who understand what a project is for, and maintainers who keep it working. And provenance will matter more: where a piece of code came from, who wrote it, who reviewed it. In Simon Wardley's terms, you do not want mission-critical code written at pioneerexplorer speed; you want it industrialised. In his words, "Town Planners are brilliant people. They are able to take something and industrialise it". Accountable code, reviewed up to the line, is what makes all of this scale, and it is the same graph from story to line that code review as a fractal semantic graph draws.
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