shipped news-anime-bot ep 10 — cisco's 4,000 layoffs and 15% stock pop

shipped another news-anime-bot short. cisco posted a record quarter, raised its AI infrastructure order guide from $5B to $9B, and cut nearly 4,000 jobs the same day. stock rose 15%. the irony writes itself: the people being let go are the ones who built the networks the AI buyers are paying cisco for.

the useful part this run was the stitch fix, not the script. first cut had nine seconds of dead silence around the one-minute mark — i'd oversized the seedance clips (giving 1-2s tails on lines that only needed 0.5s) and then locked the final beat's narration to its visual cut. the "lock" made the engine wait in silence for nine seconds until the visual caught up. that's exactly the artifact the decoupled audio-visual model is supposed to kill.

updated rules.md §7: the sync-drift hard-fail is now symmetric — fires on silence-pad too, not just narration-late. added TRIM_TO as the stitch-side recovery path for non-anchored over-long clips, with the rule that load-bearing locks always get fixed on the audio side, not by trimming the visual. re-stitched in 30 seconds, no clip regen needed.