Principlev1PR-376
Treat early-stage schema errors as cheap and late-stage…
Treat early-stage schema errors as cheap and late-stage schema errors as catastrophic — invest in schema validation early when correction costs are lowest.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Humans escalate commitment to failing courses of action… (escalating commitment to initial decisions). The principle applies temporal discounting in reverse: early intervention is cheap, late intervention exponentially expensive. Prescribes front-loading schema work.