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Bibliography

Reading order for a newcomer, with how each source entered the story. Links are DOIs/arXiv/stable URLs — no PDFs live in this repo (public; copyright); the literature index is the flat authority and the same-slice citation rule lives there.

  1. Sharma et al. (2023), Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models — arXiv:2310.13548. Read first: the trained-in agreeableness it documents is the exact force the whole architecture pushes against. Entered the story as the literature name for "yes-and to everything."
  2. Park et al. (2023), Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior — arXiv:2304.03442. The neighboring bet: LLM-driven world simulation without a hard-truth engine. Useful contrast for why hunker's engine owns the integers.
  3. Forsgren, Humble, Kim (2018), Accelerate — ISBN 9781942788331. The DORA evidence base. Entered when the maintainer asked why nothing had merged to trunk, and the answer needed more than opinion.
  4. Driessen (2010; 2020 note), A successful Git branching model — nvie.com. Read the 2020 header before the post: the author's own redirect is the shortest honest summary of where branching history landed.
  5. Fowler (2006, rev. 2024), Continuous Integration — martinfowler.com. The integrate-daily argument underneath all of it.

House rules (also in the literature index): a new source is added in the same slice that cites it; claims from memory are marked unverified until checked — e.g. the Knight Capital characterization in trunk-based-won carries that mark today.