My Demo Script Found a Production Bug on Its First Run: A Tiny Post-Mortem

<h1> Production Was Down… But Everything Looked Normal 🤯 </h1> <blockquote> <p>A real debugging story about silent failures and why thinking matters more than tools.</p>

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<p>Your AI system isn't going to crash. It's going to drift.</p> <p>A recommendation engine making 1.4 model calls instead of 1. A retrieval pipeline fetching 5 chunks instead of

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<p><em>The AWS Reliability Files, Part 1</em></p> <p>I told an AI a true fact about AWS. Then I had a second AI confidently insist it was wrong. Within one exchange, the first

<p>You've heard of DevOps. You've heard of AIOps. You've probably heard of MLOps.</p> <p>But there's a category that doesn't exist yet — and it's the one the AI industry needs

<p>On January 28, 2026, Moltbook launched to considerable fanfare. The pitch was bold: an "agent-first, human-second" social network where 1.5 million autonomous AI agents could

<p>MCP feels easy until it isn't. The first time you wire up a stdio server and call a tool from a Claude Agent SDK loop, the whole thing fits on a slide. Then you put it in front