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Week 4 Crit: Code

The same method, aimed at a pull request instead of a drawing --- proof that it wasn't an art-crit trick.

15 March 2027

Bring

A small pull request or patch of your own — ten to eighty lines is the sweet spot, big enough to have a real decision in it, small enough to review in the room.

The crit

Same silent-note-first structure as week 3, aimed at a diff instead of a drawing. “This could be cleaner” doesn’t survive here any better than it did on the drawing — the room’s standard question becomes “cleaner how, and what would convince you it already is.” Idris runs this one hardest, because he’s heard every version of a vague code review that still got approved.

Leaves with

A review comment on a real diff that names the line and the failing case, not the vibe.

The spec

What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.

Teaching team