She smiled, opened the file, and for the first time, renamed it from Tower Crane Foundation Design Xls to Maya’s Rule.xls .

It was overkill by 40%. The project manager would fire her.

Inside was a single, brute-force formula. No safety factors. No cost optimization. It was the "Godzilla solution": double the rebar, add a 1m deep shear key into the bedrock, and increase the edge thickness to 2m.