---
id: "quote-edit-source"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§6.3"]
tags: ["source-integrity", "principle"]
related: ["concept-edit-source-principle"]
speakers: ["Jake Van Clief"]
sources: ["paper"]
sourceVaultSlug: "icm-paper-folder-architecture-2026Jun02"
originDay: 2
---
# Editing the source fixes every future run

## Quote

> *"Editing the output fixes this run. Editing the source fixes every future run."*
>
> — [[entity-jake-van-clief]]

## Why it matters

The crux of the [[concept-edit-source-principle]], framed in compiler terms:

- editing **output** is patching the binary,
- editing **source** that produced it is fixing the cause.

Connects to the multi-pass compilation analogy in [[concept-icm-as-compilation]] and the open future direction [[question-semantic-debugging]] (which would make source-tracing automatic instead of manual).


## Related across days
- [[concept-edit-source-principle]]
- [[synthesis-edit-source-as-dialogue-evolution]]
- [[question-semantic-debugging]]