Rubin's forced reduction and Musk's deletion are not interchangeable—they pick different work. Use Musk's cull frame for spec bloat and v1 feature cuts where shipping speed matters; use Rubin's rebuild frame for redesigning mature systems where clarity about what something actually is matters most. Applying the wrong frame wastes cycles: Musk on a redesign cuts load-bearing pieces without realizing; Rubin on bloat burns cycles re-adding things that should have just been deleted.
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