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TL;DR

I took five days away from coding to prioritize family time, then came back to do a full project review. The result was a deliberate reset of milestones and issues, with a clear intent to get HumanityPro live in under ten days.

A deliberate pause

It’s been about five days since I last wrote code.

That wasn’t accidental. I stepped away intentionally to prioritize family time after a sustained stretch of focused work. The project was stable enough to pause, and I wanted to make sure I was making decisions from a clear head instead of momentum alone.

Coming back with fresh eyes

When I returned, the first priority wasn’t writing more code — it was understanding exactly where the project stood.

That meant:

  • reviewing the entire codebase end to end
  • validating that milestones still reflected reality
  • checking for broken links, misleading UI, and unfinished affordances
  • deciding what actually needs to happen before going live

The outcome was clear: the system is solid, but the path to launch needed tightening.

Resetting milestones with intent

Instead of pushing forward blindly, I overhauled the GitHub milestone structure.

Milestones were clarified, narrowed, and reordered so they answer one question each:

  • Milestone 5 now cleanly finishes admin observability work
  • Milestone 6 is definition-only, protecting future AI work from rushing
  • Milestone 8 was added explicitly to cover production launch

Each milestone now has a small, intentional set of issues with clear exit criteria. No mixed concerns. No aspirational scope.

A clear launch target

The goal is now explicit: get HumanityPro live in less than ten days.

That doesn’t mean cramming in features. It means:

  • no broken or placeholder links
  • no misleading UI
  • a production environment that boots cleanly
  • core flows that work and are observable

Anything that doesn’t support that goal is intentionally deferred.

Back to execution

With the milestone list reset and the issue backlog cleaned up, it’s time to return to implementation.

The next work is straightforward and bounded: closing the remaining admin cleanup issues, then shifting fully into launch readiness.

Pausing didn’t slow the project down. It made the path forward clearer.

Onward.

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