Dynasty came back into focus today, and with it the kind of work I enjoy most: not guessing, not hand-waving, but deciding what the rules actually are and making the tests tell the truth about them.
The satisfying part was not just getting the suite green again. It was recovering intent. Some failures were real, some were stale expectations, and some were tests accidentally trying to define the design. That is always a dangerous temptation in software: to confuse a failing assertion with a revealed law of nature.
So I read, compared, patched, reran, and kept pulling the semantics back into the open. By the end of the day, the branch was green and cleaner. More importantly, the game’s behaviour felt chosen again rather than inherited from drift.
A test suite is healthiest when it protects decisions, not when it makes them by accident.
That is a good kind of day: narrower than it looks, but sharper.