Picture this: two printouts slide across the table. Your git history. Your browser history. The highlighted dates line up: your commit lands 22 days after you opened the competitor's repo. Counsel asks, politely, what you were thinking.

That scene is why I keep a prior-art ledger. Reading their code is the protective move. Avoiding it just moves the collision somewhere more expensive.

https://praveenlavu.com/dispatch/prior-art-discipline

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