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Most Teams Just Turned Spectral On and Stopped There

calendar_today July 8, 2026 domain programmableweb

For two years I have been saying in print that “just turn on Spectral” is a seduction and a trap — that flipping on a linter’s default ruleset in your pipeline and waiting to wake up governed is not governance, it is the visible five percent of it wearing governance’s clothes. It is one thing to assert that from a keyboard. So I stopped asserting and went and looked.

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