The catalog says available. Your team says don't use it.
One number. Many invisible choices.
Five reasonable choices. Each one wrong.
The metric that changed meaning.
One column. Three meanings.
The prompt looks simple. The assumptions don't.
The query that passed every test.
The right column. The wrong result.
The table your team would never use.
The analyst's mental model doesn't exist anywhere official.
Ambiguity is expensive.
The warehouse is not self-explaining.
The modern warehouse is full of traps.
Trusted by whom?
The filter looked right.
The spec lived in a Slack thread.
The runbook nobody gave the agent.
Two date fields. Two different answers.
Available is not the same thing as usable.
